[NA-Discuss] "Chicken and Egg" Problem

Garth Bruen at Knujon.com gbruen at knujon.com
Wed Apr 4 15:19:12 UTC 2012


So what is that "business model" exactly. Folks on this forum don't know the 
details. Thanks

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From: "Volker Greimann" <vgreimann at key-systems.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 10:39 AM
To: <na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] "Chicken and Egg" Problem

> With the amount of cash flowing into ICANN this month due to the
> applications for new TLDs, a substantial part of which is earmarked for
> potential legal issues, and another large batch will not be used for a
> long time due to the way the batching process is set up, I honestly
> would not worry too much about the reserves. Also bear in mind that each
> new registry will contribute another USD 25k to ICANN annually (at a
> minimum).
>
> For those registrars holding multiple accredited registrars, their
> business models usually depend on these accreditations, at least
> partially, so there would be little to no incentive for those registrars
> to torpedo their own business models just to punish ICANN a little...
>
> Finally, if these registrars decided to cancel their multiple
> accreditations, ICANN would probably able to adapt to the decrease in
> funding in time before the reserves run out.
>
> Volker
>
>> Ok, that's a fair amount.
>>
>> However, in this hypothetical the reserve would be chipped away at year
>> after year. How long would that be appropriate?
>>
>> I'm not debating, I'm really just trying to play it all out.
>>
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>> From: "John R. Levine"<johnl at iecc.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 11:29 PM
>> To: "Garth Bruen at Knujon.com"<gbruen at knujon.com>
>> Cc: "LACRALO discussion list"<lac-discuss-en at atlarge-lists.icann.org>; 
>> "NA
>> Discuss"<na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] "Chicken and Egg" Problem
>>
>>>> John, do you know offhand how much is in the reserve?
>>> They publish the numbers:
>>>
>>> https://charts.icann.org/public/index-finance-reserveB.html
>>>
>>> Looks to me like it currently contains about $50 million.  In answer to
>>> another comment, it really is a reserve, not a dedicated fund or 
>>> anything
>>> else.
>>>
>>> R's,
>>> John
>>>
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