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ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases and guess who's going to pay for it?

Subject: ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases and guess who's going to pay for it?
From: johnl at iecc.com (John R. Levine)
Date: 8 Jan 2020 16:03:03 -0500
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> I have no problem paying an extra $3/year for my .com IF every domain
> speculator must also pay an extra $3 for each of their .coms. Is that
> what's happening here?

Yes.  The contract very clearly says that everyone pays the same renewal 
price to the registry.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly

References:
- ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases and guess who's going to pay for it?
  - From: rubensk at gmail.com (Rubens Kuhl)
- ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases and guess who's going to pay for it?
  - From: johnl at iecc.com (John Levine)
- ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases and guess who's going to pay for it?
  - From: bill at herrin.us (William Herrin)

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