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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/16/23 1:53 PM, Vanda Scartezini
via At-Large wrote:<br>
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<o:p></o:p>The amount of profit any company makes if in a
competitive environment is not the business of any users, no
matter the field the companies are working.</span></p>
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<p>ICANN has established an industry and mandated business models
that are extremely non-competitive.</p>
<p>Once in, a domain name user is effectively locked in and subject
to any predatory increases in registry fees that a registry might
want to impose. We see this quite clearly in the older TLDs such
as .com, .org where there is utterly no relationship between costs
and pricing other than adherence to principle of "bleed 'em dry".</p>
<p>ICANN protects that model by effectively guaranteeing perpetual
ownership of a TLD no matter how predatory a registry becomes.</p>
<p>This thread began by noting that many TLDs are treated as pariah
spaces. That means that the idea that a domain name owner might
pull up stakes and move to a new TLD is a fantasy. Other factors,
such as web SEO ranking and strength of user recognition also
strongly militate against the notion of inter-TLD migration.<br>
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<p>By my estimate in .com alone ICANN is guaranteeing Verisign over
a $billion/year in pure profit from .com alone. Yet ICANN has
never, ever, not once, ever asked the question "how much does it
cost to provide a domain name for a year?"</p>
<p>ICANN is a regulatory body - there is no denying that - and it
has sold its soul, and our wallets, to the bank accounts of
companies such as Verisign.</p>
<p>That's not competition, that's robber barony.</p>
<p> --karl--<br>
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