Milton Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Do you see any danger that if ICANN becomes dependent on revenues
>from accreditation and registration volume fees that it may--like the
>ITU did--become hostile to any major competitive threat to the
>business firms and technologies that threaten to overturn that
>regime? and that that hostility will work to the long-term detriment
>of technological development and market competition?
I think there is a possibility that the marketplace may find some
other means of establishing online presence, and that ICANN might not
raise the revenues it thought it would. For well-heeled registrants,
the registration fees will be a drop in the bucket. However, if less
well-off would-be registrants find the fees excessive (particularly if
they do not feel they had a say in the fee establishment process),
they may very well find other options. As I've said before, when it
comes to putting up a web site or email reflector, you don't need your
own domain name, and today's technology gives you the ability to do
these things without your own domain name.
--gregbo
