[ncdnhc-discuss] Re: [bwg-core] IMPORTANT: Need guidance from you regarding .org

[Jefsey Morfin]

On 02:32 17/12/01, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law said:
>I haven't been following along.  Where do those $ numbers come from?
>
> > - NSI   M$ 4.75 or more
> > - Staff  M$ 4.75
> > - .org   M$.25 - M$ 1.5 operation costs over 10 years
> >

The agreement over the Plan B was that when releasing ".org", NSI would 
help in transferring M$ 5 to the new TLD Manager. Mike Roberts has floated 
a motion to be voted by the NC - you know that Mike sometimes has some 
influence - where the "whereas" explained that this money was to be managed 
by the ICANN and as among others proposed $ 250.000 to  be transferred to 
the future TLD Manager to help the set-up costs and negotiation with ICANN. 
This motion does not give any other indication one the remaining M$ 4.75 
some evaluate as a cost compensation for the Staff negotiating Plan B.

At the time of the PLAN B negotiation NSI ran a pre-renewal campaign at 
discounted rates for period extending to 10 years. They never released any 
figure yet to my knowledge nor indicated how many of the renewalers where 
businesses (increasing dramatically the cost of a grandfathering as there 
is a difference in compensation between not renewing and buying back).

Let assume that average renewalers chose a 5 years option. Let assume that 
NSI got only $ 10 a year. This makes an average $ 50 per renewal. Let 
assume that 100.000  took advantage from it. This makes M$ 5. Let assume 
that the real operating cost is $ 3 per year. This means that .org TLD 
Manager will have to provide a M$ 1.5 operations equivalent for free.

Obviously I may be wrong with these guessed figures. This is simple to 
correct:  just to publish the real figures.

Jefsey