Dear Members:
In my prior posting, I mentioned Tim Ruiz and Adrian Kinderis.
It was only because they each made constructive proposals on the dues
issue and both proposals "had some meat on them".
Tim proposed a tiered dues structure.
Adrian said his registration business is small but that he felt
membership in the RC was important to his business and he did not think
we should charge more to anyone.
My comment was that I'm a long time Republican and don't like this idea
of "soaking the rich".
The dialog was productive.
I stand solidly behind Tim and Adrian in the present election for GNSO
representative!!!
My posting of this morning was a thought that came to me overnight.
Some registrars who have multiple accreditations benefit substantially
from their memberships -- but they pay only dues for one of
them. They frequently make written endorsements of issues being
discussed by ICANN, signing in the name of their non member
accreditations.
Here is an example of such a posting:
Subject: [registrars] Final list of companies supporting the
statement
At 02:05 PM 11/25/2005 Friday -0500, Jennifer Ross-Carriere
wrote:
Forgot us - NameScout Corp. et al
[1]
Jen
Jennifer A. Ross-Carrire
General Counsel and Director of Policy
Momentous.ca Corporation [2]
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org
[
mailto:owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Bhavin
Turakhia
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 1:13 PM
To: registrars@gnso.icann.org
Please let me know if I am missing anyone. I intend to send the statement
to
Vint shortly
! #1 Host Kuwait, Inc
! #1 Host Malaysia, Inc.
! #1 Host United Kingdom, Inc [5] [I'm counting up the number of
signatures, BobC]
!!! $0 CostDomains
Aaaq
AAAQ Inc
Ace of Domains
Active 24 [10]
Ascio
AvidDomains
Blue Razor
Bulkregister
BulkRegister [15 duplicate?]
CoolHandle Hosting
CORE
CSIRegistry
Directi [20]
Domain Bank
Domain Contender
Domain Name Sales Inc
DomainClip
DomainHip [25]
Domainpeople
DomainPeople Inc
Domains Only
DomainSystems, Inc.
DotRegister [30]
Dotster
EasyDNS
Encirca
Enom
EPAG [35]
GMO
GoDaddy
Hosting.com
Intercosmos
Joker.com [40]
Key Systems
Key-Systems [dup?]
Melbourne IT
Misk.com
Moniker & Other Registrars [45]
Moniker Online Services
Name Intelligence, Inc
Name.com
Namebay [50]
Namesecure
Network Soln
Nominalia
RallyDomains
Register.com [55]
Schlund+Partner
Spot Domain LLC
SRSPlus
Tucows [60]
Vivid domains
Wild West Domains [62]
Best Regards
Bhavin Turakhia
Founder, Chairman & CEO
Directi
end quote:
I added the square brackets. We did not have 62 members in November
last year. Many members who were in good standing at the time did
not "sign" the list.
Some members of Excom have spoken about "free riders" among
registrars.
Would anyone object if I pointed to some rides above who have never paid
any dues?
Regards, BobC
2007-2008
Review Period: 30 Days
Income & Assets
Current Assets (Bank Account)
$37,672.31
Proposed Dues $750.00
Number of Members 50 $37,500.00
Proposed Reduced Fees-1 $250.00
Number of Members w/reduced fees 10 $2,500.00
$75,172.31
Expenses
Administrative Support-2
$15,000.00
Professional Support-3
$30,000.00
Technical Expenses-4
$4,000.00
Meeting Expenses-5
$5,000.00
$54,000.00
Expected Ending Balance
$21,172.31