So in 2008, The BASE COST to be a Registrar will be $156,000 a year. After WLS happens, Registrars will drop like flies. And as the base cost rises more registrars will drop as well. ICANN's budget states that there is expected to be 250 Registrars by 2005. However this budget will have the opposite effect and I predict every year after WLS there will be half as many Registrars. This is great news if you have a few million domains, but a real bummer if you have less then 250,000 domains. Here is the speedsheet we have been passing around using projections of half the registrars remaining each year. Jay Westerdal Name Intelligence, Inc. http://www.nameintelligence.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Eric Brunner-Williams Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 1:29 PM To: elliot noss Cc: Bhavin Turakhia; 'Eric Brunner-Williams'; 'Registrars Constituency'; brunner@nic-naa.net Subject: Re: [registrars] Find attached a sheet to show you your per domain cost vs other registrars Ross, Ok, so your comment was forward looking and speculative opinion. Maybe true, maybe not. Thanks. My problem is that there is a big, relative to USAWebhost's size, delta in the license cost for next year. One budget cycle at a time, neh? Eric