Verisign and ICANN must be laughing all the way to their next golf outing with Jones Day. They LOVE to be on the hook. That makes them essential and relevant. Verisign will now be able to RAISE domain name prices because of their rising legal fees to defend themselves. It is all theatre. As for those new TLDs ? Ah yes, well, forget those. Verisign and ICANN are now distracted by some horrible lawsuits and will not have time to encourage any competition. If any new TLDs do slip thru the cracks, Verisign and ICANN will of course be natural partners and the registry contract will of course go to Verisign to maintain stability, etc. Also, the JPA has the same impact. If it continues ICANN will argue they have to spend their time making sure their Report Card with the U.S. DOC has all A+ scores. ICANN will not have time to manage new registries. If there is no JPA, then Verisign and Jones Day can help ICANN make up a range of excuses why there is no time to have more .COMpetition. A rebid of the .COM contract will never be part of the plan. There is no time for that. Verisign and ICANN are too busy playing golf and laughing all the way to the bank. The Canadians behind CFIT and .XXX would be better off getting their government to face off against the U.S. Government by deploying a duplicate collection of .COM servers. That would increase the reliability and stability of .COM. That would also show that .COM domain names could be hosted for about 10 cents per year. The Registrars do all of the heavy lifting and make very little money. Verisign helped ICANN develop their bylaws to ensure that outcome. ICANN is a division of Verisign. It is all a sham.