No Price Controls on Domains?

[intellect]

Just like to highlight this blog post on CircleID which I first read about on thedomains blog. If new gtld contracts do not require price controls, we are asking for a slippery slope. Where is ICANN's sense of regulatory responsibility?

Link: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081024_verisign_tiered_domain_pricing_soon/

 

[draggar]

That's nice, when my domains come up for renewal, someone can just take them away from me because they are going to pay more money.

 

[tldrental]

something like this would cause a riot

 

[south]

ICANN's sense of regulatory responsibility?

Only to themselves apparently..

 

[Yusio]

This wouldn't happen.. But if it did, good bye to domaining.

 

[rajs1ngh]

This wouldn't happen.. But if it did, good bye to domaining.

Completely Agree.

 

[Sonny Banks]

We need more transparency in this industry...ICANN first.

 

[Stian]

"Even with a 10-year transition period, it would shock the conscience if VeriSign was permitted to arbitrarily and unilaterally raise the renewal price of .coms to millions or billions of dollars per year (say $1 billion/yr for Google.com, $10 million/yr for Hotels.com, $50 million/yr for Cars.com, $30 million/yr for Games.com, or whatever the market would bear), effectively re-auctioning the entire list of premium domain names to the highest bidder, removing the existing registrant and replacing things with .tv style pricing."

:lol: .. You guys must be crazy even discussing this. We are more likely to see another ice age than something like this.

 

[Vijaya]

Yes please more

Dot US
Dot Travel
Dot Jobs
Dot Pro
Dot Biz
Dot Asia
Dot TV
Dot Mobi

No probem for King Com

 

[draggar]

This wouldn't happen.. But if it did, good bye to domaining.

And web development, the web would become just one huge advertising space for corporations and people with large bank accounts.

 

[HarveyJ]

Ouch!

Something like this would make every non-hobbyist webmaster have to pander to affiliate marketing to meet the bills.
And whilst I'm all for affiliate marketing, I also do like to see the occasional artistic project online, that's just there as a concept.

 

[Theo]

The last post by George sums it all so well!

Do Your Job

George Kirikos – Oct 24, 2008 2:48 PM PDT


ICANN should not be presenting half-baked proposals that re-open settled issues, and leave it up to volunteers to find all the loopholes. How many lawyers are on ICANN's payroll, including contractors like Jones Day, who should have reviewed it first, as they should have reviewed the .info/biz/org draft agreements last time?
The draft agreement could have stated that there would be a price cap of $6 per domain-year, as a base upon which to start the debate. Let the community start from there, instead of having to start from no price cap whatsoever. When's the last time ICANN posted a draft contract that erred on the side of domain registrants? Hint—never! It's a major cause of cynicism in the ICANN process that we must constantly defend hard fought gains due to these supposed "slips." I expect the usual shills for the registry operators to come up with their "compromise" scenarios again, like they attempted for .info, .biz and .org. Eventually, they were able to get a compromise of 10% annual price increases, even higher than VeriSign's 7% increases!