[NA-Discuss] "Chicken and Egg" Problem

Volker Greimann vgreimann at key-systems.net
Wed Apr 4 15:24:08 UTC 2012


I would assume that this would be domain backordering services in the 
most cases. The more accreditations a backordering service manages, the 
better the chances to be able to provide the customer with his 
backordered domain name at the time of the drop.

Volker
> 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
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>> 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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