ICANN to remove fee restrictions on .INFO, .ORG, .BIZ?

Wed Aug 30 04:41:00 UTC 2006

[sorry for top-quoting] Can someone explain to me what this proposed 
lifting of fees or the new registry-registrar agreement will do to the 
fees paid by everyone to whoever is running the database that holds it 
all (Netsol/Internic/who knows what)... it seems to me that the largest 
part of the fixed cost of the domain registration is going to them and 
always has. (at least for .COM/.NET I don't know about the rest). 
Couldn't this end be opened up to lowest-cost-bidder type stuff?

Deepak

Michael Loftis wrote:
> 
> <http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-28jul06.htm>
> 
> A bunch of people are calling the sky is falling, the sky is falling.  
> I'm not so sure this is the case.  What I'm interested in is if anyone 
> is actually worried about this, or has heard about this, from within 
> this community.
> 
> For those three TLDs it seems like there is little/less competition than 
> for .COM so price increases could be significant.  However I'm not sure 
> this will result in the 'per domain auction' pricing that some people 
> seem to be afraid will happen.
> 
> -- 
> "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors
> into trouble of all kinds."
> -- Samuel Butler
> 
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