ICANN: "ICANN has issued this advisory to make the community aware of certain changes in the marketplace concerning the rights to expired gTLD domain registrations."

To the best of my recollection, this is the first time that ICANN has issued a press release about registrar market conduct not regulated by ICANN. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know. To the extent that the press release was designed to answer questions raised by registrants or other registrars about whether the new NetSol and Tucows services violated ICANN rules, I suppose it's a helpful clarification. But if that's the case, I might have addressed those questions more directly. The problem with addressing market conduct is that the market for domain names -- in both services and price -- is always changing. Why did this development merit a press release by ICANN?