Roberto and all,
Financing ICANN with a $1 per domain registration is a tax, and therefore
is not expectable as is basing their financing on membership fees. This
is a poor financing model. They have had several opportunities for financing
from several different sources and either did not follow up on those, or
were unwilling to make some necessary adjustments in order to qualify
for that financing...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Bill,
>
> You wrote:
> >
> > My nose insists upon telling me that I smell something putrid.
> > This malady started when on internet.com I first read "ICANN
> > Adopts Cyber-Squatting Policy" and then "ICANN gets Financial
> > Boost." Is that not what many of us have been concerned about
> > for years now, that ICANN was for sale by the highest bidder?
>
> IMHO, your nose is right.
>
> That's why I was in favour of financing ICANN in a different way, like for
> instance with a $1 fee on domain names, or with a membership fee.
>
> This would have avoided ICANN to be in need to find other sources of
> revenue.
>
> As Snoopy sais in "Peanuts": "The hand that holds the (food) bowl rules the
> world".
>
> >
> > Keep records, troops. This will make a great documentary one
> > day.
> >
>
> What I will enjoy most in this documentary is to see all those that were
> against alternate sources of funding (membership, $1 domain name fee, and so
> on) now complaining that ICANN has taken the money somewhere else, as if
> this was not obvious to everybody (and spelled out clearly) since the
> beginning.
>
> Regards
> Roberto
Regards,
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