Jeff,
of course, I meant the indirect money flow. Registrars would never pay a
dime to ICANN for the accreditation if they didn't believe they would
get their money back from registrants. That is, indirectly but also
actually the revenue is being made by registrants.
But this is not what I wanted to talk about. The problem is that
registrants, though recognized the final customers in all this business,
are not given a care they deserve. They suffer from the flawed domain
transfer mechanism and disinclination to provide them with effective
help. Instead ICANN prefers activities in favour of money Almighty.
But this doesn't mean we have to share the same attitude and accept
various excuses instead of forcing ICANN to do real work for
registrants.
Dominik
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Williams [mailto:jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 1980 6:01 AM
To: Dominik Filipp
Cc: ga; vinton g. cerf; icann board address
Subject: Re: [ga] Registerfly domain renewal issues
Dominik and all,
Not so as you stated it. Registries and registrars pay ICANN for
their accreditation to become a registry or registrar. Registrants pay
their registrar of choice for registering a Domain name.
I have never written a check, or any other method of pay to ICANN for
any of my domain names I, or any of our members have registered.
Indirectly it is true that registrants money goes to ICANN.
Dominik Filipp wrote:
Hi Jeff,
ICANN receives $$ from registrants not from Registerfly. If ICANN
doesn't worry about whom it serves then it's up to the constituencies,
that is also us, to remind ICANN of its duties.
Dominik