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While we acknowledge the effort and hard work involved in producing the documents currently out for comment, it is unclear that the threshold question of whether the potential consumer benefits outweigh the potential costs has been adequately addressed and determined. In that regard, we would like to call your attention a decision of the ICANN Board in October 18, 2006, that called for an economic study to address questions such as:
- whether the domain registration market is one market or whether each TLD functions as a separate market,
