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Just to be clear, as Ron suggested above, the risk isn't that they charge $100/yr for everyone, if there are no price caps. The real risk is that they charge a playboy.xxx or adultfriendfinder.xxx or hustler.xxx $100,000/yr or $1 million/yr (or whatever the market will bear, since it's uncapped) for a renewal, versus $60/yr for a less popular site (say FourLongRandomWords.xxx). And if FourLongRandomWords.xxx ever became popular, they could bump up the renewal fees from $60/yr to anything they wanted, to maximize their own profits as the registry operator (just like say RedTube.com came out of nowhere and became popular; if VeriSign had unlimited pricing power, they would be able to charge more for RedTube.com to renew their domain; and if they didn't renew it at the higher price, they could certainly find someone to pay a premium, or someone would certainly grab it to have it parked on pay-per-click, etc., taking it over).
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