FYI: More ccTLD's say no to ICANN FEES Joe Baptista dot.GOD Hostmaster +1 (805) 753-8697 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 21:29:46 +0200 From: Alexander Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ga] European ccTLDs refuse to pay ICANN fee? Dear all, this is my rough translation of a statement originally in German concerning the ccTLDs position on the ICANN fee. (You can find the German original at www.icannchannel.de, 'Allgemeines Forum'). I haven't seen anything about in the media yet, so I wondered if you all know about it. To me, this doesn't just look like it's about money; the European registries know that they will have to contribute to ICANN. It seems they are unsatisfied with how ICANN and especially DNSO work. Does anyone have more information from the Trondheim meeting? Best regards, /// Alexander _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ European domain registries oppose ICANN demands for payment of fees The mainly European (ccTLD) domain registries forming the organisation CENTR have on a meeting in Trondheim, Norway, rejected demands from ICANN, the international management body for domain names and Internet addresses, for payment of fees in the manner aimed at by ICANN. All national registries are supposed to procure a total of 35 percent of ICANN's budget for the financial year 1999/2000 amounting to $1.5 millions and have received 'invoices' in April. The amounts are calculated according to the number of registered domain names in each country. As largest domain zone, Germany alone was supposed to remit nearly $500,000. CENTR criticizes that there is no legal basis for these invoices. ICANN's activities are welcomed and a contribution to its financing is generally accepted. Yet without a skeleton contract between registries and ICANN the organization cannot just ask for fees which do not correspond to any services in the period of time in question. Additionally, it is not appropriate to calculate the claims according to the number of domains as the service provided by ICANN to the individual registries does not in any way depend on the amount of domains, but rather is generally identical for all the registries. "We are thoroughly willing to pay our share of ICANN's financing costs. But we see this year's payment as a initial start financing, not as a fee that corresponds to a precise service form ICANN", says Carsten Schiefner from the board of DENIC eG, who manage the German domain names. "ICANN cannot decide arbitrarily on the contribution which the individual registries have to pay. In addition, it has to be clarified which services ICANN will take on in the future and how the registries' influencing opportunities are turning out." The board of DENIC is going to confer on the course of action, especially concerning the amount of the payment to ICANN in the next couple of days. DENIC --> www.denic.de CENTR --> www.centr.org -- This message was passed to you via the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to unsubscribe ("unsubscribe ga" in the body of the message). Archives at http://www.dnso.org/archives.html