Re: [ga] Alternative Domain Name Distribution Models

["Elisabeth Porteneuve" <elisabeth.porteneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roberto,

The problem is that the high accreditation fees did not solve and will not 
solve the proliferation of shadow registrars - the big registrars can afford 
to pay tens of accreditation fees.
But those fees definitely prevent new registrars, and new ideas.
As far as I recall no single big ccTLD has a high accreditation fees, when 
ccTLDs have fees it's few hundreds of euros or dollars..

Kind regards,
Elisabeth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roberto Gaetano" <roberto@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:18 PM
Subject: RE: [ga] Alternative Domain Name Distribution Models


> Again, trying just to trigger points for discussion rather than provide an
> opinion, may I elaborate on Mike's sentence below:
>
> > With regard to Elizabeth's email to Danny regarding the level
> > of fee, I share your concerns about any fee levels that could
> > act as a barrier to entry, especially in developing countries.
>
> Agree. However, there's also the other aspect, the proliferation of shadow
> registrars that only serves the purpose of augmenting the "firing power" 
> of
> an organization for things like grabbing deleted names. My feeling is that
> we would need to elaborate a more complex fee structure, that is not the
> "one size fits all" (i.e. same fee for every applicant), but takes into
> account also other factors, like the location. It is, of course, not as
> simple as it looks, because nothing could prevent well organized business 
> to
> do things like to delocalize registrars in developing countries, to pay
> lesser fees.
>
> > P.S. Given the current exchage rate, in future can I have
> > your 0.02 Euros instead of cents :-)
>
> In Europe, we call them also "cents". I hope that the lawyer in you would
> not think to sue Europe for supposed copyright violation... ;>)
>
> Cheers,
> Roberto