[ga] ...a palpable hit

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Karl Auerbach wrote:

> In particular I'd certainly be interested in your position on the fact
> that this
> "tasting" exercise has demonstrated that the actual registry costs of
> processing
> a name registration are significantly less than the registry fee that
> ICANN
> requires registrars to pay, and which is passed through to internet users
> to the
> tune of several hundred millions of dollars, every year, in excessive
> registry fees.
>
> Question: Do you feel that those of use who acquire names for full term
> (i.e.
> one year or more) ought to pay a registry fee (of $6, going to $7+ for
> .com)
> even though the actual cost to the registry to process the transaction is
> on the
> order of $0.02?  I.e. why should each of us who acquires a full-term
> domain name
> be forced to pay an extra %5.98, going to $6.98, especially when the
> tasters get
> it for free?
>
> Remember, that when we multiply this excessive fee over the entire set of
> full-term registrants in .com alone we are talking about an excess fee
> that
> amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

I'd be interested in all the ICANN Directors' views on this particular
question, but since he's made himself available, how about it Veni?

Geia sou!

Sotiris Sotiropoulos