Re: [ga] Dot-Mobi: Posterchild for new gTLDs has some financials on the web

[Antony Van Couvering <avc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I like the financials just fine.

Consider:

1. mTLD's burn was due to Afilias' per-domain fee to mTLD, which has now 
disappeared (Afilias will pay its own internal cost only).  It might well be 
profitable with a realistic cost structure.

2. There's 1.7M Euros in assets going to Afilias.

3. We don't know what the price was - probably good for both parties.

4. mTLD had big expenses doing engineering work developing their mobile 
standard.  

5. .mobi was created to capture a market that never materialized.  That's 
evidence of a bad prediction, not proof of anything wrt new gTLDs.

6. Here are the real insiders: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjd/3331072194/  
They've attended every ICANN meeting. Hmm, any new gTLD advocates there?  I see 
Marilyn Cade.... nope, she's against.  Mike Palage... nope, he's against.   
Several existing TLD registries -- they're pretty happy with the status quo.  
Some ICANN staffers -- well, they might be for or against, who knows, but 
they're not starting new gTLDs.  Basically, there's one pro-new-gTLD person 
there, Amadeu Abril i Abril. 

Are you suggesting that there's an "insider" conspiracy spearheaded by Amadeu?

Antony 




On Feb 12, 2010, at 4:50 PM, George Kirikos wrote:

> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> New gTLD advocates aren't going to like the financials for dot-mobi that were 
> shown on PaidContent.org:
> 
> http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-dotmobi-sells-.mobi-domain-name-operator/
> 
> Of course, ICANN's so-called "economic experts" won't consider these facts, 
> just like they ignored the issue of switching costs, externalities, etc. that 
> were discussed previously in response to the Carlton garbage.
> 
> The jig is up. Domain registrants want competition in the form of competing 
> regular tenders for operation of .com (and .net/org too). Everything else is 
> a distraction that only benefits the ICANN insiders.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> George Kirikos
> http://www.leap.com/
> 
> P.S. I'd really love to see the financials of Telnic (.tel). :-) Adding 
> AdSense to their pages won't rescue them.