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Registrar says panel found largely in its favor in dispute over uncapped registry prices.
Domain name registrar Namecheap is claiming victory in a battle it waged to keep price caps on .org and .info domain names.
The company filed for the Independent Review Process (IRP) in 2020 to protest ICANN’s unilateral decision to remove price caps on .org and .info domain names. ICANN staff made the decision to remove price caps even though it was against the interests of domain name registrants and registrars.
While the IRP hasn’t been made public yet, Namecheap says the panel’s ruling states:
The problem for ICANN is that it already amended its contracts to remove price controls with the registries that manage .org and .info. Whether or not it can get them to agree to caps now is questionable. And ICANN has been on a crusade to remove all price caps and to argue that it isn’t a price regulator for domain names.
The IRP ruling could influence ICANN in the future when it is pressured to remove .com price controls.
[Editor’s note: I have not seen the IRP at the time of publishing this story. The above is based on Namecheap’s blog post about the decision.]
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Congrats to Namecheap! Someone should sue VerySign too for the recent price increases of .COM & .NET.
Reference: https://circleid.com/posts/20221007-price-increases-for-.com-and-.net-the-generated-impact-on-performance-of-two-tlds
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