To: Barry Shein I fully support the idea of differentiate pricing for .brands! I even support a separate window-process for applications, evaluations and delegation of .brands, contracted out to WIPO to deal with!!!!!! And ICANN should just get a cut of of that. It owuld allow us to focus on the free open internet and the public interest. --- Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez carlosraul@gutierrez.se +506 8837 7176 Aparatado 1571-1000 COSTA RICA El 2018-07-12 05:49, bzs@theworld.com escribió:
A major problem with nTLDs, including (and particularly) brand nTLDS, is ICANN should have charged, and should going forward, millions for them, not $185K+$25K/year.
And if any were deserving but not financially capable they could be handled on a case by case basis. It's not like it's difficult to give something away so let's not bog ourselves down in that.
I think $2.5M for a new gTLD and $5M for a brand TLD sounds pretty reasonable, and $100K/$250K/year, maybe more.
To quote a recent note here it's not much for a Fortune 500 company.
-- -Barry Shein
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