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Re: Additional sources of revenue (Re: [ga] ALAC statement...)

  • To: Joanna Lane <jo-uk@xxxxxxx>, Marc Schneiders <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Richard Henderson <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Additional sources of revenue (Re: [ga] ALAC statement...)
  • From: Rick Wesson <wessorh@xxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 21:18:51 -0700
  • Cc: ga@xxxxxxxx
  • In-reply-to: <DPEOJECBMOLLLJOFDNDPAEAKEBAA.jo-uk@rcn.com>
  • Organization: Alice's Registry, Inc.
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If you didn't like siteFinder just wait till october when everyone gets to 
purchase their domain again to protect a WLS position... And the wholesale 
price is 400% more than the origional wholesale price of the working 
registration.

registrants should be thinking of some kind of "class-action" as aparently 
ICANN only listens to those that sue the organization.

-rick

On Thursday 18 September 2003 7:30 pm, Joanna Lane wrote:
>  Marc Schneiders wrote:-
> <Maybe ICANN could make money from the wildcard TLD (* in the root zone)?>
>
> Logic dictates that it has a way to do that already. Not only does ICANN
> not do anything that is not in it's own interests of (ICANN interests in
> this instance being defined by special interests as opposed to the public
> interest ICANN was set up to promote), but also, it is inconceivable that
> Verisign could have implemented anything as radical as this without at
> least running it past ICANN's closed session executive branch. The question
> is how is ICANN benefiting? Has Verisign increased its commitment to ICANN
> commensurate with its increased gross revenue, or what?
>
> Joanna




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