Re: [ga] ICANN has posted the proposed Budget for the FY 2005 -2006

[Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>]

Combine that with staffing shortfalls and litigation and you have a recipe for failure or perhaps government subisidies, or corporate. Is that what the meeting in "secret" with Justice is all about - after all we must be sensitive to security.
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Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Richard and all former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

What's more interesting as a supposed 501 [ C3 ] non-profit corp.
ICANN is supposed to recieve 2/3'rds of it's funding from donations.
Now I don't believe that "Transaction Fees" are a form of donations
or legally qualified as such...

Richard Henderson wrote:

> It's interesting that about half of ICANN's total projected income is
> intended to come from the Transaction Based Registrar Fee (in other words,
> paid to ICANN by Registrants when they acquire a domain name) and yet
> nowhere in ICANN's structure do I find an equivalent representation of the
> Registrant constituency, or indeed even the existence of a Registrant's
> constituency.
>
> Registrants in the coming year are estimated to be paying ICANN (through
> their Transactions with Registrars) $11,788,252 of ICANN's total projected
> income of $23,453,760.
>
> That is a lot of taxation for zero representation.
>
> Yrs,
>
> Richard H
>
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> Subject: [ga] ICANN has posted the proposed Budget for the FY 2005 -2006

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