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8.Which additional disadvantages would each suggestion bring?

For each of the different suggestions (A-C) or others that you might identify (D, etc.), comment on which of the groups from question 1 are disadvantaged, identifying them using the example below so that the reviewers can quantify the responses.
An example response (but please choose your own or one that suits your response) could be that if you believed that the suggestion (B) making the ICANN fee apply to names deleted during the AGP would adversely impact (1d) registrars and (1h) registrant representatives, but positively impact (1c) intellectual property rights owner and (1g) intellectual property rights owner representatives.

Those suggestions:
A) eliminating the AGP so that domain registration fees are non-refundable between registry and registrar;
B) making the ICANN annual transaction fee (currently 0.20 USD per year) apply to names deleted during the AGP, or to a significant portion of them;
C) imposing registry ‘excess deletion fees’ charged to registrars for disproportionate deletes (for example in .org, PIR registry charges 0.05 USD per deleted domain if more than 90% of domains are deleted in a given time period).