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

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Hello Vittorio,

your reasoning wrt costs is one which has been echoed by many
participants.

However, have you read the document entitled "New gTLD Programme:
Draft Applicant Guidebook (Draft RFP), Explanatory Memoranda and
Supporting Documents"?
Do you disagree with the methodology described in the part of the
document entitled "Cost Considerations of the New wwgTLD Program"?
Of particular inteest, do you disagree with the diagram shown on page
9 of the document?

BTW I am entirely neutral on the matter. I can understand ICANN's
explanation for the high fees, but I also understand that for
applicants such as yourself, this is very expensive. As such, I fear
that there may not be any win-win position on this.

O.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vittorio Bertola" <vb at bertola.eu>
To: "Sivasubramanian Muthusamy" <isolatedn at gmail.com>
Cc: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [At-Large] FW: My comments on new gTLDs and the role of
ICANN


> 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,
> -- 
> vb.                   Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu
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