to the icann board
I wish to express my profound concern that the proposed registry agreements for .org, .biz and .info do not prohibit predatory price rises by the registries. ICANN was entirely right to object to Verisign's SiteFinder service, and for all the right reasons, but appears not to have learned the obvious lesson: that registries can be motivated to do things that are not in registrants' interests. Given that reality, removal of price caps is likely to result in anticompetitive practices that seriously impact internet stakeholders. I hope that you will reconsider this aspect of the agreements. Brent Stewart |