White board criminals making illegal agreements to increase the price of .com domains and getting paid for this decision by Verisign. That does sound very smelly.
You should all go to jail for filling your own pockets over the back of retail clients.
Internet is about freedom of choice and not about dictatorship by a centralized organisation like ICANN who is making decision in their own interest so their people can fill their own pockets with outrageous bonuses.
Concentrate on what you should do as organisation instead of being thiefs!