By keeping its costs down and locating an audience for smaller, quirkier artists, Merge has become, over the course of 239 releases, the Little Label That Could, a model for financial prudence and artistic relevance in an industry notorious for squandering both.
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The increase was to be funded by the introduction of new top-level domains, charges to Internet registries of 39 countries, rejected the increase, accusing ICANN of a lack of financial prudence and criticizing what it describes as ICANN's " " unrealistic political and operational targets " ".