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Re: ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases and guess who's going to pay for it?

From: "John R. Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 8 Jan 2020 16:03:03 -0500

I have no problem paying an extra $3/year for my .com IF every domain
speculator must also pay an extra $3 for each of their .coms. Is that
what's happening here?

Yes. The contract very clearly says that everyone pays the same renewalprice to the registry.


Regards,
John Levine, johnl () taugh com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly

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