Common use of Pricing for Domain Name Registrations and Registry Services Clause in Contracts

Pricing for Domain Name Registrations and Registry Services. (a) Pricing. The price to ICANN-accredited registrars for new and renewal domain name registrations and for transferring a domain name registration from one ICANN-accredited registrar to another, shall not exceed a total fee of US$5.40, which fee consists of (A) a Registry Operator service fee (“Service Fee”) equal to US$4.65, and (B) an ICANN fee equal to US$0.75. The Service Fee charged during a calendar year for each annual increment of a new and renewal domain name registration and for transferring a domain name registration from one ICANN-accredited registrar to another, shall not exceed the highest Service Fee charged during the preceding calendar year multiplied by 1.10. The same Service Fee shall be charged to all ICANN-accredited registrars. Volume discounts and marketing support and incentive programs may be made if the same opportunities to qualify for those discounts and marketing support and incentive programs are available to all ICANN-accredited registrars. For the avoidance of doubt, the programs expressly permitted by Section 7.1(b) shall not be a violation of this Section 7.3(a).