Dear all, To get some more relevant data I have reached out to ICANN's translation services to see what their current rate for translations is. They got back to me with the following: "Translations are not billed per hour, but per word. When a document is submitted for translation the material is assessed, one of the pieces of information we get from this assessment is the word count which allows us to estimate the time needed for delivery and, of course, the cost for the project. However, when the document or text to be translated represents less than 100 words, then the cost applied to the project is the ³minimum cost², and that is anywhere between $25 to $75, depending on the language, for any document of 100 or less words.² I hope this is useful as a ball park figure. Very best. Lars From: <Dillon>, Chris <c.dillon@ucl.ac.uk> Date: Thursday, 9 April 2015 12:35 To: Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele@blacknight.com> Cc: "gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org" <gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org> Subject: [gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg] RE: Follow up from public comment Dear Michele, Many thanks for your prompt response. Regards, Chris. -- Research Associate in Linguistic Computing, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT Tel +44 20 7679 1599 (int 31599) www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon> From: Michele Neylon - Blacknight [mailto:michele@blacknight.com] Sent: 09 April 2015 11:24 To: Dillon, Chris Cc: gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org Subject: RE: Follow up from public comment Chris I¹ve reached out to the drafters of our comment to get that information for you. I assume that the number is drawn in part from the volume of UDRP / URS etc., vs the number of actual domains registered, but will confirm. Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Domains http://www.blacknight.host/ http://www.blacknight.press/ - get all our latest media releases & coverage http://blog.blacknight.com/ http://www.technology.ie/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Social: http://mneylon.social ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,Ireland Company No.: 370845 From: Dillon, Chris [mailto:c.dillon@ucl.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2015 9:35 AM To: Michele Neylon - Blacknight Cc: gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org Subject: Follow up from public comment Dear Michele, The Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information PDP WG is just about to start drafting its final report and it was noticed that the RrSG public comment http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-transliteration-contact-initial-16dec1 4/msg00001.html on p.3 mentions that only about 0.1% of domains are subject to law enforcement query or brand protection intervention. Please let us know the source of this statistic, as we would like to follow it up and possibly use it in our report. Sorry for not asking you about this nearer the time of the comment. Regards, Chris. -- Research Associate in Linguistic Computing, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT Tel +44 20 7679 1599 (int 31599) www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon>