Regulating Pricing for Registrations & Renewals
Pardon if this was previously discussed, but Verisign had to get the US govt to sign off potentially raising .com prices (w icann approval) by 7% per year: https://domainnamewire.com/2018/11/01/breaking-u-s-gov-grants-verisign-com-price-hikes/. So I guess there was at least some oversight here. Not sure this applies to other extensions?
Then, icann lifted .org price caps allowing the registry to charge what they want:…