[At-Large] TR: Une "Fondati on DNS" aliment ée par l'ICANN ?

[Adam Peake]

At 6:48 PM +0100 1/18/08, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>Adam Peake ha scritto:
>>Personal preference, I'd much prefer any cash to be used for 
>>developing nations, example support for ccTLDs (technical 
>>excellence in all domains, i.e. "Preserving and enhancing the 
>>operational stability, reliability, security, and global 
>>interoperability of the Internet.")
>
>I'd be extremely concerned if ICANN started taking the attitude that 
>it has the right to extract arbitrarily high amounts of money from 
>registrants to fund activities that are not directly connected with 
>its own operations and mission. I'm fine with ~$0.20 per domain, I'm 
>fine with supporting developing country ccTLDs or the IGF (or the At 
>Large ;)


sympathetic with this view.  However:


>if there's enough coming from it, but no one tasked ICANN with being 
>the Treasure Ministry of the Internet, let alone deciding how to 
>redistribute money from the "undeserving" to the "deserving".
>


Too late.  Already done with .ORG.  Decision made purely on the 
grounds of who was most deserving, technical criteria met by many 
applicants.  ISOC revenues now some millions of dollars each year.

I'm not sure I agree a sale of a very limited number reserved second 
level names could be seen as extracting "arbitrarily high amounts of 
money from registrants".  I don't see a user harm issue here. The 
choice to buy or not would be with the potential buyer, there would 
be less than 100 (90 max?) no one is forced to do anything. I don't 
see anything negative for the potential registrant.

Who owns the right to profit from reserved names might be 
interesting...  VeriSign?  IANA which reserved the names way back: if 
IANA then does that mean ICANN or US Govt? (remembering the fate of 
the Intellectual Infrastructure Fund fund, revenues from pre-ICANN 
registrations.)

Adam




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