Is ICANN going to ignore the overwhelming sentiment of comments opposing the Verisign encouraged price hikes? After all that is what ICANN did last time public comments were taken with .org and .biz domains. https://www.icann.org/resources/agreement/org-2019-06-30-en Is ICANN really subservient to Verisign? Verisign seems to think ICANN is quite malleable: Quote: Verisign's CEO ( James Bidzos ) : We believe these discussions with ICANN are nearly complete. While it will be inappropriate at this time to provide more details, I can say that we were satisfied with the results so far. As noted, this is an ICANN process and we expect that before long ICANN will be publishing for public comment the documents we have been discussing. Is ICANN's collection of these comments merely a legal formality? Was this proposed policy change influenced at all by the $20,000,000 Verisign agreed to build into Verisign's renewed contract with ICANN? If the answer to any of the above questions is "yes", we have to ask another two questions: Is ICANN displaying signs of corporate greed? Would ICANN benefit from a top-down restructuring? Andrew Gee