[NCUC-DISCUSS] Does part of GTLD market is being moved with blurry money?

[Shane Kerr]

João,

Since the Internet allows business to run from anywhere, it makes sense
that companies would naturally migrate to places with low tax rates.

A less charitable interpretation would be that the new gTLD are mostly
run by domainers, who are involved in a shady business. ;)

An even less charitable interpretation would be that this is typical
corporate abuse of the international tax code to insure that
shareholders' gains are maximized instead of paying a fair share to
keep society running. :(

My guess is that this is all legal though. It's certainly not new.
Afilias was one of the first newish gTLD operators (it started
running info in 2001 or so) and it has technical operations in Canada,
business headquarters in the USA, and an accounting department in
Ireland. While I know that many people at Afilias like Guiness, I don't
think that's the reason for this corporate structure....

Cheers,

--
Shane

At 2016-01-11 10:50:48 -0200
João Carlos Rebello Caribé <caribe at entropia.blog.br> wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I need to deep this data, my first conclusion was based on the top countries:
> 
> http://icannwiki.com/New_gTLD_Stats
> 
> Cayman Islands are the preferred tax havens followed by British Virgin Islands, Gilbratar, and Switzerland.
> 
> That's not curious ? So compare this with nationalities of members of GNSO (I don't see this data yet).
> 
> Top Countries
> 
> USA: 884 applications[8]
> Cayman Islands: 91 (of which 54 were submitted by Uniregistry)
> Luxembourg: 85 (of which 76 were submitted by Amazon)
> British Virgin Islands: 72 applications (of which 70 were submitted by Top Level Domain Holdings)
> Japan: 71
> Germany: 70
> Gibraltar: 62 (of which 60 were submitted by Famous Four Media)
> Switzerland: 51
> Applications were received from 60 countries.[9]
> 
> 
> 
> Em 11/01/2016, às 09:22, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) escreveu:
> 
> > Hi Joao, 
> > This is interesting. Do you have an analysis? 
> > Regards, 
> > 
> > 2016-01-11 13:51 GMT+03:00 Alireza Kashian <alireza.kashian at gmail.com>:
> > Dear Joao 
> > 
> > Can you give us some samples for gTLDs you are referring to.
> > 
> > best
> > Alireza
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:45 AM, João Carlos Rebello Caribé <caribe at entropia.blog.br> wrote:
> > Folks, nice Sunday!
> > 
> > I was researching some facts about the gTLDs and the list of countries that are top applying caught my attention, have a significant share of tax havens.
> > 
> > Are they "laundering money" on the gTLDs market?
> > 
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