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    Dear Oliver,<br>
    <br>
    thanks for pointing this out. The debate has been going on in ICANN
    community for quite a while already on whether ICANN should regulate
    prices or introduce some kind of pricing controls. Pricing appears
    to also have a consequence on domain misuse as it has been noticed
    that domain names sold at very low prices are being used as
    throwaway domains for spam etc. The discussion is ongoing with no
    consensus on what to do, as some oppose any kind of pricing
    regulation in what is an open market, whilst others are asking that
    ICANN establish rules for TLD pricing increases. The fact that some
    domains are sold as premium domains for several thousand $ whilst
    others are sold at $1, makes this difficult. Plus the essential
    question remains: is it in ICANN's mandate to control domain name
    pricing?<br>
    <br>
    Kindest regards,<br>
    <br>
    Olivier<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/09/2017 08:49, Passek, Oliver
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          <div><font size="4" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b>Something`s
                  going wrong here…</b></span></font></div>
          <div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="3"
              face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><a
href="http://domain-recht.de/domain-registrierung/neue-top-level-domains/ntlds-aufgrund-der-preiserhoehungen-fuer-cars-game-und-andere-geraet-uniregistry-unter-druck-65977.html"
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                    color="blue"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b><u>Aufgrund
                          der Preiserhöhungen für .cars, .game und
                          andere gerät ...</u></b></span></font></a></span></font></div>
          <div><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#666666"><span
                style="font-size:14pt;">domain-recht-21.08.2017</span></font></div>
          <div><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#444444"><span
                style="font-size:14pt;"><b>Uniregistry</b> Corp.,
                Verwalterin von dutzenden neuer generischer <b>Top
                  Level</b> <b>Domains</b>, gerät unter Druck: aufgrund
                der angekündigten ...</span></font></div>
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                color="blue"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Uniregistry
                  TLD price increases - DNSimple Blog</span></font></a></div>
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                    href="https://blog.dnsimple.com/2017/08/uniregistry-tld-price-increase/"
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          <div><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#666666"><span
                style="font-size:14pt;">24.08.2017 - <font
                  color="#545454">In March we heard rumors about </font><font
                  color="#545454"><b>Uniregistry's</b></font><font
                  color="#545454"> intention to increase the price of
                  several </font><font color="#545454"><b>TLDs</b></font><font
                  color="#545454">, in some cases by significant
                  amounts. The rumors ...</font></span></font></div>
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