[LAC-Discuss] FW: Developing Country Participation Fund

[Jacqueline A. Morris]

This is very interesting. I plan to follow it up.
Jacqueline

-----Original Message-----
From: Danny Younger [mailto:dannyyounger at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:31 PM
To: jam at jacquelinemorris.com; na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org
Subject: Developing Country Participation Fund

Section 7.2  Fees to be Paid to ICANN. 

"(a)  Registry-Level Transaction Fee. Commencing on 1
July 2005, Registry Operator shall pay ICANN a
Registry-Level Transaction Fee in an amount equal to
US$0.75 for each annual increment of an initial or
renewal domain name registration and for transferring
a domain name registration from one ICANN-accredited
registrar to another during the calendar quarter to
which the Registry-Level Transaction Fee pertains.
ICANN intends to apply this fee to purposes including:
(a) a special restricted fund for developing country
Internet communities to enable further participation
in the ICANN mission by developing country
stakeholders, (b) a special restricted fund to enhance
and facilitate the security and stability of the DNS,
and (c) general operating funds to support ICANN's
mission to ensure the stable and secure operation of
the DNS." 
http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/net/net-agreement-new.html

As of the end of this year there were 8,750,236
registrations in .net -- by my calculations (at 75
cents per registration) that would mean a fund in
excess of $6,562,677 (a portion of which would be used
for developing country participation).

For starters, I would like to know what percentage of
the funds will be or has been allocated for such
purposes and the specific plan for the expenditure of
such funds.  Presumably this is a matter that would be
of interest to several of the RALOs.





       
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