[At-Large] FW: My comments on new gTLDs and the role of ICANN

[Vittorio Bertola]

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy ha scritto:
> So I wouldn't really generalize by saying that it is wrong on the part of
> ICANN to have decided to charge a fee. At the same time, ICANN could also
> consider either a case to case basis waiver of all or part of the fees, or
> even think of categories of fees for new domain names - for instance
> commercial corporations with a commercial domain name allocation business
> plans charged a higher fee, non-profits a subsized fee or a fully waived
> fee.

I think that this would be a good solution, but let me make one more
point: these fees really seem to be artificially high, much higher than
the actual cost of evaluating the applications ($185'000 * 500
applications = $92.5 million; the cost of processing application is
almost entirely made by people's time to examine them; with $92.5
million, even in developed countries, you can hire 2000 people for a
year, at $46'250/person/year, or 1000 people at $92'500/person/year; do
you really need all those people??)

I wouldn't really say that we need ICANN to find subsidies for
non-profit applications - I would say that we just need ICANN to keep
the fees strictly equal to actual and direct costs, and IMHO the fee
would be much lower.

Ciao,
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