I find it interesting that the notion of 'removing the price cap" is being read to suggest an increase in registry fee amounts. But why? Any back-of-the-envelope calculation for TLDs such as .com or .org strongly suggests that the existing registry fee levels are dramatically too high - and cumulate well past a $billion a year in monopoly rents far in excess of actual costs. Running a registry is largely a back room operation - some database transaction servers and a cloud of actual DNS name servers. Since ICANN was formed the cost of those things has fallen and fallen and fallen. And the cost of much of the infrastructure - such as Verisign's fortress data center(s) have been amortized years ago. As far as I know there has never been an audit, much less a serious audit that distinguishes between real operational costs and Potemkin Village corporate image fluff costs, of actual costs of providing legacy TLD registry services. One would think that an audit - published to the public - would be warranted before any consideration of unleashing unbounded upwards prices onto captive legacy TLD users? --karl--