proposed NCUC response to the ICANN-VeriSign settlement

[Iliya Nickelt]

On 15 Nov 2005 at 10:30, Horacio T. Cadiz wrote:
>     Does anyone have a breakdown of ICANN's revenues?

It can be found on ICANNs budget pages, eg.
http://www.icann.org/financials/adopted-budget-12aug05.html
for the current year.

OK, let's look at the numbers. This is just a quick overview, the
budget is relatively complex and I am no accountant. So I might have
made mistakes.

For 2004/05 50% of ICANNs total revenue was gained by the gTLD
transaction fees (25 cent per transaction). Verisign owns 82% of that
market, so assumed that transaction amounts are in a linear relation to
number of domains, in 2004/05 it paid $6.6Mio (of Mio$14.5) plus
150.000$ from tier3, so Verisign carried 46% of the total ICANN budget.

The other important sum, Mio$ 5.7, was paid by the registrars, as I
understand it.

Figures for next year (Mio$):
ICANN Total: 23.5
82% of Transaction: 9.7 (of 11.8)
.net: 4.25 (29)
tier 3: .15
VS subtotal: 14.1
--> 60% of ICANN revenues

 (29) "Successor Operator .NET -- $4,351,000 based on the unapproved
proposed agreement forms and current number of names under management."

Less than I thought, but still not bad.

	--iliya