I do not think that you should allow Verisign to operate as a registrar as it will decrease the competitiveness of the domain market because they already control so much of it. Additionally the maximum that you should allow the prices of domains to be increased is the amount of inflation each year (average the rate of inflation from the major developed markets: US, Europe, Canada, China, Australia, etc). This keeps the costs down to users that need it. You could try allowing a revenue based pricing scheme so that rich companies pay more for their trademarked names (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Toyota) if more revenue is really needed from somewhere. -- Cheers, Josh Smith