Re: [ga] Opposition mounts to .com price hike

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's a bad deal, but have to at least get the math right when we talk about
it. It would raise it to $9/year by 2012 by my calculations. Correct me if
I'm wrong about it being a 50% increase rather than 100%.

Chris McElroy, President,
Kidsearch Network
http://www.KidsearchNetwork.org
http://www.MissingChildrenBlog.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 8:03 AM
Subject: [ga] Opposition mounts to .com price hike


> 23rd November 2005
> By Kevin Murphy
>
> Excerpt:
>
> A proposed deal that would let VeriSign Inc double the
> wholesale price of a .com domain by 2012 is coming
> under increasing amounts of criticism from consumers
> and from the company's own channel.
>
> Under a deal inked in October, VeriSign agreed to
> settle its lawsuits against ICANN, the Internet Corp
> for Assigned Names and Numbers, in exchange for a new
> .com registry contract that allows it to raise prices.
>
> The deal enables VeriSign to raise prices by 7% a year
> starting in January 2007 through to when the contract
> ends in 2012. If VeriSign took advantage of this every
> year, the price of a .com would double from its
> current $6 by the end of the term.
>
>
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=A784F389-5300-4C71-9175-2E5EAE62861B
>
>
>
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