Another interesting article on that site saying that Verisign can't change the wholesale price of .coms for at least 6 years...
http://onlinedomain.com/2012/12/03/n...year-for-free/
Also interesting that .org is permitted to raise up to 10% per year, every year, but .com could only raise 7% out of 4 years in 6 (prior to the current no-raise agreement)