Cost estimates for new TLDs

[Jorge Amodio]

Some of the byproducts could be a more easy to understand set of
requirements/checklist and financial projection as shown in page 97 of the
DAGv3, that may serve as a template for small non-commercial organizations
to evaluate the feasibility of applying for a gTLD.

Given that for a small non-commercial or community oriented gTLDs the cost
of entering in the game can be to steep, probably the best option is to
"outsource" the operations to organizations such as CORE, that's how puntCAT
did setup their .CAT sTLD.

I'll check on my side, but do we have any good contacts at CORE to see if
they are willing to share some cost estimates that we can use to plug in a
financial projection exercise ?

Regards
Jorge

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Mary Wong <MWong at piercelaw.edu> wrote:

>  Taking up Jorge's earlier suggestion and Rafik's comments, would any NCUC
> members be interested in forming an informal working group to try to come up
> with some working cost estimates? It seems as though we have varied
> expertise and experience among our members, and I think it would be
> extremely valuable for NCUC-NCSG to produce a document along those lines. It
> needn't be a huge and complex study; even a brief document with some
> realistic estimates would be better than what Avri has termed our "hand
> waving" to date.
>
> Besides Jorge, is there anyone who will be able and is interested in
> contributing to this?
>
> Mary
>
>  *Mary W S Wong*
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> Franklin Pierce Law Center
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>
> >>>
>     *From: * Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at GMAIL.COM> *To:* <
> NCUC-DISCUSS at listserv.syr.edu> *Date: * 3/18/2010 1:52 PM *Subject: * Re:
> Local cost related to running a TLD
> the argument was if you cannot have the money for fees so how can you run a
> registry.
> the cost recovery is still high and unclear.
>
> Rafik
>
> 2010/3/19 Jorge Amodio <jmamodio at gmail.com>
>
>> > - to show that cost for running registry regarding appropriate
>> requirement
>> > is really low and don't correspond to what Kurt is arguing as
>> cost-recovery
>> > etc
>>
>> The issue is that the recovery cost as the based for the application
>> fee it is not based on whatever the cost of running the registry is,
>> perhaps Kurt's argument that $185K compared to the cost of running a
>> registry is a minimal amount is not 100% correct.
>>
>> As far as I know the recovery cost is based on the costs associated
>> with the evaluation of a string application for a new gTLD and as I
>> mentioned before the bill does not stop at $185K, if you have to go to
>> an extended evaluation or dispute you may have to add another
>> $50-$150K to the final tab.
>>
>> Regards
>> Jorge
>>
>
>
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