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Yeah, it's too complicated. I noticed @namesilo tries to make a distinction between aftermarket and registry premium, but their site gets confused on aftermarket registry premium domains.

I actually paid less than the standard, uniform price. The registry agreement says (emphasis added): Since my renewal price wasn't identical to the uniform price, they violated the agreement. My complaint is the "premium" tag is the indicator...

I emailed them on Monday and asked if they could give me a rough idea of what my expectations should be in terms of a timeline for resolving issues like mine. I haven't gotten a reply yet :-( I'm a bit conflicted on how to handle it. On one...

Do you have those listed on aftermarket sites? I think that can get them listed as a premium domain. I don't like it, but I dislike premium domains in general. Disliking premium domains is something I'll explain on my website if I end up...

I don't know anything about their budget. Do they have unnecessary spending? Regardless, any cuts to oversight are terrible given the state of the industry and, as a registrant, I'd rather see the fee double or quadruple if it would result in...

I'm also really interested in any registries that have agreed to voluntary pricing schedules (aka caps) with registrars. I know I read an article a few months ago about one of the registries doing that, but I haven't been able to find it again.

I've interacted with ICANN once more, but I'm not sure what the progress is like. The original email to say my complaint was in progress was on Apr 12. Their docs say they try to respond in 3-5 business days with a 5-5-5 (day) process after...

It's not a department. It's one person. Based on my understanding, asking them for help is supposed to be a last resort. This is the first time in my life I've every reached out to someone in that role. They're not there to do any kind of...

@bismisoft Yes, I made some progress in the last couple of weeks. ICANN global support replied in <12h and gave me contact info for the compliance department. I used that to follow up, but didn't get a reply. I wasn't super surprised by that...

It's not the registrars. Those are registry premium domains. The registries make that designation and set the prices. The registrars end up providing support to customers that are confused by the complex pricing and lack of rules. I get your...

I finally went through all my logs for the other TLDs this weekend and, besides mine, .icu is the only other interesting one. Besides those, the worst thing I saw was a couple TLDs, out of about 320, where the renewal prices increased by a...

I saw someone mention .icu as a gTLD they weren't happy with in another thread. I have logs for the matching .icu of my domain, so I decided to look at them. I don't own this domain. Based on the quick parsing I did tonight... On Jul 21, 2021...

The registry agreement is very clear when it comes to renewal pricing of non-premium domains. Registrants are entitled to uniform pricing that's "exactly" the same as every other non-premium domain on the same gTLD. What's the point of ICANN...

@Bob Hawkes I finally got a chance to read through the related threads you linked from 2022-2023. What happened with your complaint? One of your comments in an older thread caught my attention. Now when I read Section 2.10(c) it makes me...

Thanks. I used the email address you suggested to follow up. I also think I could have complained to the ICANN Ombuds since "delays" is one of the examples of ways the Ombuds can help participants, but I think it's fair to ask for someone to...