PIR also increases prices (was Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Verisign files change of fees)

[Adam Peake]

PIR will also increase prices.

Public Interest Registry Notice of Price Increase [PDF, 393K]
<http://www.icann.org/correspondence/frolich-to-twomey-18apr07.pdf>

New charge will be $6.15.

Frannie, could you ask on the advisory council list why the increase
is necessary?

No doubt the increased costs will be passed along somehow.

Thanks,

Adam





At 3:28 PM -0400 4/16/07, Milton Mueller wrote:
>Yes, that's the one. Go get 'em.
>
>>>>  Danny Younger <dannyyounger at YAHOO.COM> 4/16/2007 2:21 PM >>>
>Milton,
>
>I believe that you are refering to the resolution
>passed at the 18 September 2006 Special Meeting of the
>Board:
>
>Resolved (06.___), the President is directed to
>commission an independent study by a reputable
>economic consulting firm or organization to deliver
>findings on economic questions relating to the domain
>registration market, such as:
>
>  -- whether the domain registration market is one
>market or whether each TLD functions as a separate
>market,
>-- whether registrations in different TLDs are
>substitutable,
>-- what are the effects on consumer and pricing
>behavior of the switching costs involved in moving
>from one TLD to another,
>-- what is the effect of the market structure and
>pricing on new TLD entrants, and
>-- whether there are other markets with similar
>issues, and if so how are these issues addressed and
>by who?
>
>I have no knowledge of this study having been
>initiated.  I will check into it and get back to the
>constituency if there is any news to report.
>
>Regards,
>Danny
>
>--- Milton Mueller <mueller at SYR.EDU> wrote:
>
>>  This is a key issue, and we should follow it. Danny,
>>  do you or anyone
>>  else know what happened to the economic study of
>>  registries that the
>>  ICANN Board resolution 6-8 months ago promised to
>>  do?
>
>
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