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| snippet about financial in the new gTLD guidebook: Section 2.10: Transparency of Pricing for Registry Services. Except as set forth in this Section 2.10, Registry Operator shall provide no less than six months notice in each ICANN accredited registrar that has executed Registry Operator’s registry-registrar agreement, advance notice of any price increase for[(net of refunds, rebates, discounts, product tying or other programs)] of no less than thirty (30) calendar days with respect to initial domain name registrations and one hundred eighty (180) calendar days with respect to renewal of domain name registrations, and shall offer registrars the option to obtain domain name registrations for periods of up to ten years registration renewals at the current price (i.e. the price in place prior to any noticed increase) for periods of one to ten years at the discretion of the registrar, but no greater than ten years. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to renewal of domain name registrations, Registry Operator is not required to give notice of - need only provide - thirty (30) calendar days notice of any price increase if the resulting price is less than or equal to a price for which Registry Operator provided notice within that past twelve (12) months, and need not provide any notice of any price increase for the imposition of the Variable Registry-Level Fee set forth in Section 6.46.3. [Registry Operator shall ensure through its Registry-Registrar Agreement that each ICANN-accredited registrar authorized to sell names in the TLD will clearly display, offer, all domain registration renewals at the same price, unless the registrant agrees to a higher price at the time of the initial registration . . . a link to an ICANN-designated web page that ICANN will develop describing registrant rights and responsibilities. [Note: subject to continuing community discussion] of the domain name following clear and conspicuous disclosure of such renewal price by Registry Operator.] Registry Operator shall provide public query-based DNS lookup service for the TLD at its sole expense. |