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Originally Posted by bartosiewicz.pl
We had steady growth of IDNs before we reduced prices and we have it now... So the general trend is not correlated with price.
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Yes but a lot of IDNs would drop (after being registered for 10 PLN) if the price went back to 40 or 60 PLN. So the lowered prices of IDNs helped them a lot IMHO.
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Price matters, but if we talk about aftermarket sales of the names for a few hundred euro, it doesn't matter if renew price of the domain name is 2-3 or 9-10 euro.
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Oh, it does matter. And
why the registry has to be the one to profit from national treasure? Because that's the case when we talk about ccTLDs. That's why I will always insist on lowering prices of domain names (especially ccTLDs), so all can profit (individuals, companies, registrars, domainers etc. - not only registry). That's why
domains should cost 2-3 EUR not 9-10 EUR and more.
And what is also important - in the end -
lower prices = larger number of domains = high revenue for the registry to cover costs and maintain the registry.
Lower prices help also to get more domains under the radar of domainers (more domains are worth parking or buying for reselling). Lower prices mean more domains for sale and lower average price of domains at aftermarket = more customers on aftermarket.
Those higher prices of maintaining domain names has to be covered by someone in the end (it is customer that buys domain names at aftermarket or primary market).
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But of course I'm glad that NASK reduced prices for IDNs in Poland, because we did everything we could to support it. Another story is if it was successful or not...
I hope other TLDs will learn from .PL how to deal with IDNs 
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Yes, I am glad too and I hope that
NASK will also reduce prices for nonIDNs just like it did for IDNs. 9-10 EUR is not a competitive price at European market.
DD