..but had to swallow a price freeze on domain names except under 'special circumstances'. What's a body to do when your Uncle Sam slaps you upside the head!
Interesting! Would you take this as an undue 'governmental interference'.... parminder
The latest .COM renewal is the 32nd modification to a contract with the US government that originally dates from the early 1990s, and predates ICANN's existence by many years. The versions of the contract are all published on the US Department of Commerce web site. This is not the first time the pricing rules have changed, nor the first time the prices have decreased. As we say in the US, that horse left the barn a long time ago. I'm kind of surprised that people who are intrested in Internet governance wouldn't be familiar with the contracts that control the largest TLD. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly