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    <p>I think the main issues is that with an endless variety for
      pricing models for especially premium names, it can be sometimes a
      bit difficult to discern the renewal pricing of a particular
      domain name. <br>
    </p>
    <p>In the previous world, one only had to look at the standard price
      list of a registrar, look for a TLD and find your renewal price.
      If you do that now, you may find a bad surprise down the road when
      you notice that this price does not apply to your premium name, no
      matter how big the letters on the website of the registrar
      pointing out the possibility of differential pricing between names
      in the same TLD were. <br>
    </p>
    <p>It has become somewhat consumer-unfriendly.</p>
    <p>Volker</p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 12.04.2018 um 17:46 schrieb Rob
      Hall:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="EmailStyle22">Can someone
            explain to me what the concern is about transparency on
            price ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="EmailStyle22"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="EmailStyle22">Registries
            publish their pricing to their clients, the Registrars. 
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="EmailStyle22"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="EmailStyle22">Registrars set
            whatever price they want for Registrants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="EmailStyle22"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="EmailStyle22">Are we concerned
            about transparency of a Registrar not knowing what price a
            Registry is charging them ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="EmailStyle22"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="EmailStyle22">Or are we
            concerned that a Registrant can’t tell what price their
            Registrar is charging them ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="EmailStyle22"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="EmailStyle22">Rob</span><span
            lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
                style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Gnso-newgtld-wg
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org"><gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org></a> on behalf of
              Vanda Scartezini <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:vanda@scartezini.org"><vanda@scartezini.org></a><br>
              <b>Date: </b>Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 11:41 AM<br>
              <b>To: </b>Michele Neylon - Blacknight
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:michele@blacknight.com"><michele@blacknight.com></a>, Maxim Alzoba
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:m.alzoba@gmail.com"><m.alzoba@gmail.com></a><br>
              <b>Cc: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org">"gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org"</a>
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org"><gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org></a><br>
              <b>Subject: </b>Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Deliberations and
              Recommendations - CW comments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            moz-do-not-send="true"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century
              Gothic",sans-serif">Any regulation on price will lead
              to Cartel organizations and corruption associated to it.
              Agree that transparency is the only demand we shall make
              related to pricing and from my view majority of it is in
              the contract words.</span><o:p></o:p></a></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century
              Gothic",sans-serif">Best to all</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century
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              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><i><span
                    style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#009193" lang="PT-BR">Vanda
                    Scartezini</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><i><span
                    style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#009193" lang="PT-BR">Polo
                    Consultores Associados</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><i><span
                    style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#009193" lang="PT-BR">Av.
                    Paulista 1159, cj 1004</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><i><span
                    style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#009193" lang="PT-BR">01311-200-
                    Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><i><span
                    style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#009193">Land Line:
                    +55 11 3266.6253</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><i><span
                    style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#009193">Mobile: + 55
                    11 98181.1464 </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><i><span
                    style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#009193">Sorry for any
                    typos. </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><span
                  style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
                </span></b></span><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
                style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Gnso-newgtld-wg
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org"><gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org></a> on behalf of
                Michele Neylon - Blacknight
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:michele@blacknight.com"><michele@blacknight.com></a><br>
                <b>Date: </b>Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 06:35<br>
                <b>To: </b>Maxim Alzoba <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:m.alzoba@gmail.com"><m.alzoba@gmail.com></a><br>
                <b>Cc: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org">"gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org"</a>
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org"><gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org></a><br>
                <b>Subject: </b>Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Deliberations and
                Recommendations - CW comments</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-GB">Wasn’t
              pricing and why attempting to regulate it already
              discussed to death in the last round?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-GB">I
              have some recollection of this.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-GB">I
              think the key thing with regard to pricing is
              transparency, which is already baked into the contracts.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-GB">Regards</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-GB">Michele</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">--</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
                style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Mr Michele Neylon</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
                style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Blacknight Solutions</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
                style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Hosting, Colocation
                & Domains</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
                style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.blacknight.com/">https://www.blacknight.com/</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
                style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blacknight.blog/">http://blacknight.blog/</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
                style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Intl. +353 (0) 59 
                9183072</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
                style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Direct Dial: +353 (0)59
                9183090</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
                style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Personal blog:
                <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://michele.blog/">https://michele.blog/</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
                style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Some thoughts:
                <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ceo.hosting/">https://ceo.hosting/</a>
              </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
                style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">-------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
                style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Blacknight Internet
                Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
              style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,R93
              X265,Ireland  Company No.: 370845</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><span
                  style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
                </span></b></span><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
                style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Gnso-newgtld-wg
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org"><gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org></a> on behalf of
                Maxim Alzoba <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:m.alzoba@gmail.com"><m.alzoba@gmail.com></a><br>
                <b>Date: </b>Thursday 12 April 2018 at 09:13<br>
                <b>To: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lists@christopherwilkinson.euWilkinson">"lists@christopherwilkinson.eu Wilkinson"</a>
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lists@christopherwilkinson.eu"><lists@christopherwilkinson.eu></a><br>
                <b>Cc: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org">"gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org"</a>
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org"><gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org></a>, Christopher Wilkinson
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cw@christopherwilkinson.eu"><cw@christopherwilkinson.eu></a><br>
                <b>Subject: </b>Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Deliberations and
                Recommendations - CW comments</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Dear Christopher, 
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">I'd like to make a
              comment and a note.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">1.  a note about
              pricing for premium domains - 'picket fence' protects both
              registries and registrars from influence of policies on
              pricing <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">(also direct price
              regulation from ICANN will lead to investigations of
              anti-monopoly agencies around the world[in some countries
              it will constitute a crime])<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">2. a comment on
              "Registry would be taking advantage of its monopoly over
              their TLD in question in an unjustifiably discriminatory
              manner."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Fact that a
              particular company has a monopoly can be established only
              by the relevant market regulator.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Registrants are
              free to choose another TLDs, if they are not happy with
              the terms of the particular ones. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">So assumptions that
              Registries are monopolists are not established facts and
              we can not use it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Sincerely Yours,<br>
                                <br>
                                Maxim Alzoba<br>
                                Special projects manager,<br>
                                International Relations Department,<br>
                                FAITID<br>
                                <br>
                                m. +7 916 6761580(+whatsapp)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">skype oldfrogger</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Current UTC offset: +3.00
                                (.Moscow)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                <br>
                <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
                    style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">On 11 Apr
                    2018, at 23:51,
                  </span><a href="mailto:lists@christopherwilkinson.eu"
                    moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                      style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">lists@christopherwilkinson.eu</span><span
                      style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span
                    style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"> Wilkinson
                    <</span><a
                    href="mailto:lists@christopherwilkinson.eu"
                    moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                      style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">lists@christopherwilkinson.eu</span><span
                      style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span
                    style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
                  style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
                      style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Good
                      evening:<br>
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                      <br>
                      <br>
                      <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
                        style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><br>
                        Allow me to amplify and confirm my few Chat
                        comments during the conference call last Monday
                        afternoon, 9 April 2018.<br>
                        <br>
                        In general the working document (1.12
                        Deliberations etc .) is an excursion into a
                        working method with which I am quite unfamiliar,
                        so I ask those of you who have this for your
                        bread-and-butter to bear with me for a little
                        while. I also have noted that the document is in
                        the form of questions for discussion and not
                        recommendations at this stage. So I hope that
                        some of my comments may still be taken into
                        account.<br>
                        <br>
                        Indeed, at some points, I find the drafting on
                        some issues rather uncertain; there are
                        ambiguities and options that  - from the point
                        of view of a rather more conventional  approach
                        – might be described as loopholes. ICANN and
                        GNSO will no doubt have gathered that the next
                        'round' will be scrutinised by third parties far
                        more thoroughly than was the case in 2004 or
                        2012. More specifically:<br>
                        <br>
                        1.<span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>Rollout:
                        It would be helpful to have information about
                        how many new TLDs have still not been
                        implemented, and why.<br>
                        <br>
                        For instance, after the 24 months allowed, it is
                        not clear why “… extensions…should continue to
                        be available according to the same terms and
                        conditions as they were allowed during the 2012
                        round.”<br>
                        <br>
                        In a related question, “The Work Track was also
                        careful to avoid drawing the conclusion that
                        only having <nic.TLD> registered
                        constituted 'squatting' or 'warehousing' “<br>
                        <br>
                        Taken together these two statements leave the
                        strong impression that the Work Track would in
                        practice accept squatting and warehousing of new
                        TLDs. Was that intended?<br>
                        <br>
                        If there has been 'unwanted behaviour' – and the
                        subsequent discussion suggests that there has
                        been – then one might have expected a rather
                        more proactive approach to discouraging such in
                        the future.<br>
                        <br>
                        2. Contractual compliance  - pricing for premium
                        domains.<br>
                        <br>
                        The document discusses the issue of 'pricing for
                        premium domains' but reports that 'The WT  has
                        not reached any conclusions on this issue'.
                         Whereas it is quite likely that applicant
                        representations and related authorisations would
                        address prmium pricing.
                        <br>
                        <br>
                        For instance, in the case of a geographical
                        name, there would normally be a presumption of
                        non-discrimination between Registrants, such as
                        towns or other communities, within that geo-TLD.<br>
                        <br>
                        More generally, ICANN might consider moving
                        towards a policy whereby the economic 'rent' for
                        a 'premium name' should accrue to the Registrant
                        and not to the Registry. Otherwise it would
                        appear that the Registry would be taking
                        advantage of its monopoly over their TLD in
                        question in an unjustifiably discriminatory
                        manner.<br>
                        <br>
                        3. Contractual compliance – enforceability of
                        representations<br>
                        <br>
                        The document reports that the WT considered a
                        proposal 'that all applicant representations
                        should be included in the registry agreement'
                        and that 'There was no agreement … in support of
                        this proposal.'<br>
                        <br>
                        This would appear to be a rather weak conclusion
                        which might be queried at a later stage because
                        it does not really respond to the four questions
                        indicated under f. Deliberations.<br>
                        <br>
                        <br>
                        *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
                        style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
                        style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">*<br>
                        <br>
                        The above is but a summary of the main concerns
                        evoked by this section of the draft. I look
                        forward to discussing these and other aspects in
                        due course.
                        <br>
                        <br>
                        Christopher Wilkinson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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