Re: [alac] Analysis of .coop, .museum, and .aero renewals

[Wendy Seltzer <wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:06 PM 12/30/2005, John R Levine wrote:
> > I'm trying to think up technical or other reasons why ICANN cares if
> > there are going to be 20 people in a TLD or 20 thousand. There's the
> > money ICANN gets from each domain registration. What else?
>
> You might make an argument that for all the effort involved in negotiating
> the TLD contracts, there's no point in doing it if there aren't going to
> be a lot of registrations.
>
> Of course, to me that says that the process is much, much, much too
> complicated.

Yes, and I thought the application fees were supposed to cover 
ICANN's evaluation and negotiation costs.  The ongoing oversight 
costs to ICANN for a TLD should be negligible, especially if it has 
few registrants.

--Wendy

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