[council] FW: Proposal to form a Joint ALAC - GNSO WG "to develop a sustainable approach to providing support to applicants requiring assistance in applying for and operating new gTLDs" in response to the ICANN Board Resolution 20 at the Nairobi

[Rafik Dammak]

Hello,

I asked Bruce Tonkin about documents related to cost and fees for newt gTLD
and he sent those: did someone checked them yet?

2010/3/21 Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au>
>
>
> There are two papers available on the ICANN component of the costs.
>
> See:
>
> http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/cost-considerations-23oct08-en.
> pdf<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/cost-considerations-23oct08-en.
> pdf>
>
> and
>
> http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/cost-considerations-04oct09-en.
> pdf<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/cost-considerations-04oct09-en.
> pdf>
>
> There is also a paper on a benchmarking study on what is involved in
> operating a registry.   This was conducted by KPMG and compared 7 gTLDs
> and 6 ccTLDs across 10 countries.
>
> See:
> http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/benchmarking-report-15feb10-en.
> pdf<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/benchmarking-report-15feb10-en.
> pdf>
>
> Note that there are also some letter of credit requirements etc to be
> able to provide funding to operate a registry for I think three
> additional years, if a registry operator chooses to cease providing that
> function.
>
> Regards,
> Bruce Tonkin


2010/3/21 Avri Doria <avri at ltu.se>

> On 20 Mar 2010, at 13:30, Jorge Amodio wrote:
>
> > If you are already defining what the outcome/goal of the working group
> > has to be, there is no reason for a working group.
>
>
> on the contrary.  we have a hypothesis.
>
> perhaps WG is the wrong name, since Wg now come with baggage.
> i am more the willing neologize a new name for a the small band that tries
> to disprove the hypothesis that:
>
> - a well formed, but small, TLD registry operation that meets ICANN
> requirements can be run for far less in development regions then it would
> cost to run the same size registry in the developed world.
>
> if this can't be disproved and someone can show a reasonable cost breakdown
> for a well formed Registry in a development region, then perhaps we can
> dispel the perpetual comments that come like:
>
>
> from http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg08596.html
>
> snip
>
> > My first question to any of them though
> > would be to ask if the entry cost is too high, do you actually have the
> > resources then to run a TLD?
>
> and this goes some way to dispelling one of the perpetual remarks one hears
> whenever one tries to talk about lowering the prices (and just because the
> staff says fees won't be lowered does  not make that necessarily true)  or
> establishing a fund to help those who want to try and create a TLD despite
> most of the rich people's world of ICANN being united against them.
>
> a.
>
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