At 6:32 AM +1200 1/19/08, Franck Martin wrote:
This would be seen as a tax.
I don't agree. It would be a one time sale, the eventual registrant free to buy or not. Taxes are fees imposed on someone/some entity. A sale of reserved names would be more like a govt selling off land or buildings it owned. Do you think ISOC's revenue from .ORG is a tax? Adam
On 19/01/2008, Vittorio Bertola <<mailto:vb@bertola.eu>vb@bertola.eu> wrote:
Adam Peake ha scritto:
Personal preference, I'd much prefer any cash to be used for developing nations, example support for ccTLDs (technical excellence in all domains, i.e. "Preserving and enhancing the operational stability, reliability, security, and global interoperability of the Internet.")
I'd be extremely concerned if ICANN started taking the attitude that it has the right to extract arbitrarily high amounts of money from registrants to fund activities that are not directly connected with its own operations and mission. I'm fine with ~$0.20 per domain, I'm fine with supporting developing country ccTLDs or the IGF (or the At Large ;) if there's enough coming from it, but no one tasked ICANN with being the Treasure Ministry of the Internet, let alone deciding how to redistribute money from the "undeserving" to the "deserving". -
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