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the registration business at all. They will became accredited and display "the seal", but actually never become operational. If there is a cost incurred by ICANN to maintain this accreditations I do not think it is fair to ask me to pay for them.
I agree with what you say. However the truth is that ICANN does not really have to bear a huge cost in maintaining THOSE Accreditations who are simply in it for the batch pool. From what I see, all these guys have ZERO domains, ZERO complaints, and they NEVER call or contact icann or utilise any of ICANNs staff resources for any doubt, query etc. in essence those registrars who simply use the batch pool are actually NO COST to ICANN. They are silent spectators and ICANN is actually making the $5k per year off them for really no cost. What I do not wish to see JP is ICANN basing its budget structure on short term revenue opportunities of a certain set of Registrars. This is a trend which seems to me to be very scary, and a precedent here could be really bad for Registrars Additionally there are many other reasons as to why the current budget is not the best for ICANN as well as the Registrars, but I have already covered that Best Regards Bhavin Turakhia Founder, CEO and Chairman DirectI -------------------------------------- http://www.directi.com Direct Line: +91 (22) 5679 7600 Direct Fax: +91 (22) 5679 7510 Board Line (USA): +1 (415) 240 4172 Board Line (India): +91 (22) 5679 7500 --------------------------------------