Since ICANN and PIR are both non-profit organisations, the registration price of the various domains maintained by PIR should obviously be set to a fair price which covers the efficient running of the organisation and nothing more. If ICANN wants to remove price restrictions in the name of deregulation than they need to open up the tender process so that groups that believe they can provide the required level of service for lower prices that PIR currently charge are allowed to compete. This should be the case anyway of course. If the decision is made to let PIR have a monopoly along with deregulated pricing we'll all immediately know that ICANN has been infiltrated by either blatant corruption or gross incompetence. In fact, looking at the current list of board members of ICANN and PIR it is immediately obvious there is a huge overlap and conflict of interest. Both organisations are effectively now one and the same. I guess we're screwed. Regards, Michael Judd.