Kurt made the point, both in the teleconference and in the interview see: http://au.news.yahoo.com/040519/20/p29a.html "We signed a new memorandum of understanding with the Department of Commerce that clearly lays out due dates for what ICANN needs to do in the next three years to become independent of the DoC," he said. "Each of these tasks is substantial." I'm wondering if the DOC understood what these "due dates" were going to require ICANN to do to registrars. And of course registrars, like with all that happens here, at least small ones, are never consulted. It seems that whatever promises ICANN made way back when, were not able to be kept up with with the structure that they setup and the budget that they had. It seems that we should be drafting a letter to DOC to see if we can get some relief of these requirements that ICANN has with the MOU, or to go through other channels. DOC MOU is the reason ICANN is doing this.
From the same article:
"NSI's CEO Champ Mitchell told ComputerWire the fees will increase costs andplace an unreasonable burden on smaller registrants. He said: "We do not support it and we will oppose it. That's our position and the position of a lot of other registrars." "unreasonable burden on smaller registrants"? The small per domain fees that we are talking about are apparently a burden on registrants (and a tax). (Next time there is a rape or a fire, yell "tax increase" if you want to get people s attention.) It seems that NSI would be most likely to be able to, at the prices that they charge, absorb the cost. So what this is really about is trying to get a fee system in place that gets rid of as many small registrars as possible. This also creates a problem with NSI's "100 year registrations" introducing an uncertainty that they had not considered. Larry Erlich http://www.DomainRegistry.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Larry Erlich - DomainRegistry.com, Inc. 215-244-6700 - FAX:215-244-6605 - Reply: erlich@DomainRegistry.com -----------------------------------------------------------------