[ga] Re: [At-Large] FW: My comments on new gTLDs and the role of ICANN

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vittorio, Siva, and all,

  I can fully understand why ICANN want's or feels it needs to
charge a fee for new gTLD introduction.  Some of the reason
might be to pay for their oversight, and failure which currently
they seemingly do not do or do so poorly as to appear as though
they don't.

  That said, the amount of fee to which they are wanting to charge is
far too high.  A better idea might be to require for insurance liability
that covers registry failure and other oversight considerations that the
proposed registry would need to secure as part of their application,
and provide proof of that meets some set of minimum requirements
of which excessive spam, failover, and registration scams of different
sorts is covered to a minimum amount for each.  This would require
a RAA modification accordingly.

  Our members disagree that non-profits should get special consideration
for any reason in preference to for-profits.  But than again this issues has
been discussed and debated years ago nearly to death...

  I personally prefer Vittorio's suggestion at this time.

Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy ha scritto:
> > So I wouldn't really generalize by saying that it is wrong on the part of
> > ICANN to have decided to charge a fee. At the same time, ICANN could also
> > consider either a case to case basis waiver of all or part of the fees, or
> > even think of categories of fees for new domain names - for instance
> > commercial corporations with a commercial domain name allocation business
> > plans charged a higher fee, non-profits a subsized fee or a fully waived
> > fee.
>
> I think that this would be a good solution, but let me make one more
> point: these fees really seem to be artificially high, much higher than
> the actual cost of evaluating the applications ($185'000 * 500
> applications = $92.5 million; the cost of processing application is
> almost entirely made by people's time to examine them; with $92.5
> million, even in developed countries, you can hire 2000 people for a
> year, at $46'250/person/year, or 1000 people at $92'500/person/year; do
> you really need all those people??)
>
> I wouldn't really say that we need ICANN to find subsidies for
> non-profit applications - I would say that we just need ICANN to keep
> the fees strictly equal to actual and direct costs, and IMHO the fee
> would be much lower.
>
> Ciao,
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