Just my 2c. There might be a distinction between the control of the sale price and the ceiling to the price increase in subsequent years. We had already this discussion, and ICANN has set price increase limits for .com, .org, .net as a prerequisite condition for the re-delegation of those TLDs. There is absolutely no difference whether the registrant is locked-in in a .com domain or in a new gTLD. Cheers, Roberto On 13 Sep 2017, at 12:50, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com<mailto:ocl@gih.com>> wrote: Dear Oliver, thanks for pointing this out. The debate has been going on in ICANN community for quite a while already on whether ICANN should regulate prices or introduce some kind of pricing controls. Pricing appears to also have a consequence on domain misuse as it has been noticed that domain names sold at very low prices are being used as throwaway domains for spam etc. The discussion is ongoing with no consensus on what to do, as some oppose any kind of pricing regulation in what is an open market, whilst others are asking that ICANN establish rules for TLD pricing increases. The fact that some domains are sold as premium domains for several thousand $ whilst others are sold at $1, makes this difficult. Plus the essential question remains: is it in ICANN's mandate to control domain name pricing? Kindest regards, Olivier On 07/09/2017 08:49, Passek, Oliver (MWK) wrote: Something`s going wrong here… Aufgrund der Preiserhöhungen für .cars, .game und andere gerät ...<http://domain-recht.de/domain-registrierung/neue-top-level-domains/ntlds-auf...> domain-recht-21.08.2017 Uniregistry Corp., Verwalterin von dutzenden neuer generischer Top Level Domains, gerät unter Druck: aufgrund der angekündigten ... Uniregistry TLD price increases - DNSimple Blog<https://blog.dnsimple.com/2017/08/uniregistry-tld-price-increase/> https://blog.dnsimple.com/2017/08/uniregistry-tld-price-increase/ 24.08.2017 - In March we heard rumors about Uniregistry'sintention to increase the price of several TLDs, in some cases by significant amounts. The rumors ... _______________________________________________ EURO-Discuss mailing list EURO-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto:EURO-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss Homepage for the region: http://www.euralo.org<http://www.euralo.org/> _______________________________________________ EURO-Discuss mailing list EURO-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto:EURO-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss Homepage for the region: http://www.euralo.org<http://www.euralo.org/>