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@bertola.eu> To: "Sivasubramanian Muthusamy" <isolatedn@gmail.com> Cc: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large@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 <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------
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