Re: ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases and guess who's going to pay for it?

2020-01-08 Thread John R. Levine
I have no problem paying an extra $3/year for my .com IF every domain speculator must also pay an extra $3 for each of their .coms. Is that what's happening here? Yes. The contract very clearly says that everyone pays the same renewal price to the registry. Regards, John Levine,

Re: ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases and guess who's going to pay for it?

2020-01-08 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:46 PM John Levine wrote: > The impact of this is that if you have a .com domain name, you may > have to budget as much as an additional $3/yr. Wahoo. Hi John, I have no problem paying an extra $3/year for my .com IF every domain speculator must also pay an extra $3

Re: ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases and guess who's going to pay for it?

2020-01-08 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >El Reg is more of a tabloid than industry media, but you can read almost >the same views at domain industry blogs: >http://domainincite.com/25129-breaking-verisign-pays-icann-20-million-and-gets-to-raise-com-prices-again

Re: ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases and guess who's going to pay for it?

2020-01-07 Thread Rubens Kuhl
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 10:58 PM Keith Medcalf wrote: > > On NANOG list , Dan Hollis > wrote: > > >https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/07/icann_verisign_fees/ > > Operator of the dot-com registry, Verisign, has decided to pay DNS > overseer ICANN $4m a year for the next five years in order to

RE: ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases and guess who's going to pay for it?

2020-01-07 Thread Keith Medcalf
On NANOG list , Dan Hollis wrote: >https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/07/icann_verisign_fees/ Operator of the dot-com registry, Verisign, has decided to pay DNS overseer ICANN $4m a year for the next five years in order to “educate the wider ICANN community about security threats.” >98%

ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases and guess who's going to pay for it?

2020-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/07/icann_verisign_fees/ 98% of the comments were opposed. How many / which companies would have to get onboard in order to get enough support for an icann alternative? Is such a thing even feasible? -Dan