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No, I wouldn't. That's why we are here.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Alan<br><br>
At 08/05/2017 12:23 AM, Maureen Hilyard wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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.<br><br>
On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Alan Greenberg
<<a href="mailto:alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca">alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca</a>
> wrote:<br>
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<dd>Maureen and Bastiaan have review the .NET Registry Agreement
revisions and are not recommending and ALAC statement.<br><br>
<dd>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.<br><br>
<dd>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
<a href="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</a>
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<dd>Alan<br><br>
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