[At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Budget provisions relating to Domain Tasting

[Alan Greenberg]

No one said anything about increasing the prices of domains. If 
anything, this is a rationale for decreasing prices.

ICANN charges all registrars $0.25 per domain registers and kept past 
the Add Grace Period (minus a price reduction of $0.03 last year and 
$0.05 in the coming year). It is included in all registrations that 
you buy. I was suggesting that the fee partially or completely apply 
to all registrations, even those that are cancelled during the AGP. I 
was not expecting the suggestion to be taken up on such short notice 
(the budget was expected to be discussed by the Board Finance 
Committee within 1 day), but I did hope that it would increase 
pressure to do *something*.

To put this in perspective, in the 12 months ending in February 2007, 
there the number of .com domains increased by about 17,000. 
Presumably a larger number of new domains were actually registers and 
some dropped. During that same period, there were about 420,000,000 
domain deleted performed. The bulk of them seemingly due to domains 
added and then deleted during the AGP. I have to assume that someone 
is paying for the added cost of all of those transactions, and it is 
not the domain tasters - it is us regular registrants who bear the cost.

My suggestion was one way to get the domain tasters who get their 
millions of domains for free have to pay a fee. Although it is not 
clear that it is a representative sample, .org has found that by 
charging a $0.05 fee per AGP deleted domain (to those who do it a 
lot), their use of the AGP virtually disappeared.

Alan

At 07/07/2007 10:40 PM, RJGlass | America at Large wrote:
>As a registrant, when someone charges me more fees, that someone 
>should be accountable and have some reason for doing such.
>
>Randy Glass
>A at L
>
>On 7/7/07, Danny Younger 
><<mailto:dannyyounger at yahoo.com>dannyyounger at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Alan Greenberg posted the following comment on 27
>June:
>
>"The ALAC requests that ICANN consider charging
>registrars part or all of the $0.22 fee for names
>deleted during the AGP."
>
><http://forum.icann.org/lists/budget-0708/msg00001.html>http://forum.icann.org/lists/budget-0708/msg00001.html
>
>Sorry to say, that I cannot find the minutes of the
>meeting in which this decision was agreed upon, nor
>can I find a recording of the San Juan meeting
>sessions.
>
>How did the ALAC arrive at this particular
>recommendation without the benefit of any on-list
>discussion whatsoever?  What input did the RALOs have
>into the endorsement of this one specific
>recommendation?  Why were other viable options not
>endorsed?
>
>Is this an authorized statement?  If so, why wasn't it
>issued by the chair?
>
>Some answers would be appreciated.
>
>
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