Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Diane Cabell writes:** The following is PURE SPECULATION ONLY **> Jon Postel had a salaried day job, so he didn't have to charge for
> his notebook. How would you separate out these expenses?It's not at all the point that expenses need to be paid. They do,
hardware needs to be upgraded and replaced, software needs to be
written (even if BIND is free :-)-O), salaries need to be paid.It's the *PROFIT* margin.
COM has what, 4 Million domains?
17-35 Million US Dollars in new registrations annually?
140 Million US Dollars annually for not deleting them?ORG? NET?
300 Million per year roughly?
If we now take that there will be 5 Registrars in addition to the
Registry and they will *NOT* increase the fees (which is hardly
likely) that's 50 Million each per year.
But I think you are really missing the bigger picture here.
You are
of course correct that there is a $MOTIVATION$, of course!
>;)
The STING here is the this Interim ICANN BOard is setting up
some of their cronies ( Read GIP Here), fro the real spoils of this
mess. And of course expecting a "Gimmy" back when they are
elected as the new permanent board, of nice $FAT$ subcontracts.
This is a KEY point in my opinion. But creating another privatelyAgain, there must be revenue to equip, staff and maintain the
Registry, but the Registrars should compete on the open marked and I
should not be *FORCED* to use them.
controlled monopoly is allot harder to fix than a government
sponsored one, now isn't it.
Regards,el
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