[NA-Discuss] [At-Large] Not the pending death of a registry

[Von Welch]

Hello-

  I notice that I've been explicitly cc'ed on a number of these 
emails related to ICANN and have no idea why that would be the case. 
I suspect it is a mistake.

Regards,

Von

Jeffrey A. Williams wrote:
> Michele and all,
> 
>   Very good question IMHO.  That figures out to be about
> 8k per registration just for administration costs!  Looks
> to me there are some shanagans going on there...  I bet
> they wouldn't pass a in depth audit...  Of course
> niether did ICANN some time back...  Birds of a feather
> perhaps?
> 
>   And so the ICANN/GNSO decision making saga continues
> eh?  What's next, lets see now...  Maybe .Pharm for 
> pharmacuticles? or maybe just .Drug instead?  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michele Neylon <michele at blacknight.ie>
>> Sent: May 30, 2008 4:59 AM
>> To: At-Large Worldwide <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>> Subject: Re: [At-Large] Not the pending death of  a registry
>>
>>
>> On 30 May 2008, at 01:58, John Levine wrote:
>>> It appears that .TRAVEL generates about $1.5 million per year in  
>>> revenue,
>>> which should be enough to keep it going just fine if they cut down on
>>> whatever is costing $200K/mo in administrative overhead, which  
>>> shouldn't
>>> be hard.
>>
>> What on earth are they spending that money on?
>>
>> When I wrote about them last year they only had 25 thousand names  
>> registered:
>>
>> http://www.isquattedyour.eu/2007/05/20/tralliance-in-trouble-travel-could-die/
>>
>>
>>> So it's not a particularly noble situation, but it looks  
>>> like .TRAVEL will
>>> survive to fail another day.
>>
>> Considering its size and "popularity" why aren't they courting one of  
>> the other registry operators? Is there any sane reason for them to  
>> continue a loss making exercise when a larger and leaner organisation  
>> might be in a better position to do it?
>>
>>>
>>> I agree with Danny that ICANN should still be working on registry  
>>> failover
>>> plans, because if Egan ever loses interest, Tralliance could  
>>> collapse in a
>>> matter of weeks.
>>
>> Agreed
>>
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