[ALAC] Proposed Renewal of .NET Registry Agreement

[Alan Greenberg]

No, I wouldn't. That's why we are here.

In any case, all I was doing was pointing out that there was once 
comment posted about pricing and was wondering if people thought that 
this was something we should comment on as well.

As the CCT-RT has pointed out, it is difficult to know whether this 
is an outrageous annual increase outstripping cost-of-living 
increases or a TLD that is in-demand and due to ICANN price 
restrictions that are not on other TLDs, is still under-priced and 
the 10% is only catch-up.

Alan

At 08/05/2017 12:23 AM, Maureen Hilyard wrote:
>But really Alan, would we be expecting the ordinary end-user to be 
>analysing these costs and other sections of the document in a 
>similar way, without any prior expert knowledge about the ICANN 
>contractual bidding process, previous contracts and other details 
>you have outlined? Its outside of our scope.
>
>On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Alan Greenberg 
><<mailto:alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:
>Maureen and Bastiaan have review the .NET Registry Agreement 
>revisions and are not recommending and ALAC statement.
>
>There is one comment already pointing out that there the contract 
>(both the current one and the revised one) allow for a 10$ increase 
>in the price to the registrar per year. Note that for New gTLDs, 
>pricing is out of scope of ICANN registry agreements. Based on the 
>2011 price of $4.65 and the 2017 price of 8.20, it would appear that 
>they have used the full 10% over the term of the last current 
>agreement. The 10% rate is the same as that in the current .ORG 
>agreement. .COM presumably due to the size of the registrant base is 
>price-capped.
>
>The comment also says the contract should not be renewed, but rather 
>put out for competitive bidding - something that is not within 
>ICANN's ability to decide (and confirmed by the statement calling 
>upon government anti-trust action). See 
><https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-net-renewal-20apr17/2017-April/000000.html>https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-net-renewal-20apr17/2017-April/000000.html.
>
>Alan
>
>
>
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