[91997] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to remove fee restrictions on .INFO, .ORG, .BIZ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Aug 30 00:41:54 2006
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:41:00 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
To: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <EC02A4532699D9D931047095@d216-220-25-20.dynip.modwest.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
[sorry for top-quoting] Can someone explain to me what this proposed
lifting of fees or the new registry-registrar agreement will do to the
fees paid by everyone to whoever is running the database that holds it
all (Netsol/Internic/who knows what)... it seems to me that the largest
part of the fixed cost of the domain registration is going to them and
always has. (at least for .COM/.NET I don't know about the rest).
Couldn't this end be opened up to lowest-cost-bidder type stuff?
Deepak
Michael Loftis wrote:
>
> <http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-28jul06.htm>
>
> A bunch of people are calling the sky is falling, the sky is falling.
> I'm not so sure this is the case. What I'm interested in is if anyone
> is actually worried about this, or has heard about this, from within
> this community.
>
> For those three TLDs it seems like there is little/less competition than
> for .COM so price increases could be significant. However I'm not sure
> this will result in the 'per domain auction' pricing that some people
> seem to be afraid will happen.
>
> --
> "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors
> into trouble of all kinds."
> -- Samuel Butler
>
>
