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Taxation and Representation

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  • Subject: Taxation and Representation
  • From: "Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 20:28:20 +0100

It's interesting that about half of ICANN's total projected income is intended 
to come from the Transaction Based Registrar Fee (in other words, paid to ICANN 
by Registrants when they acquire a domain name) and yet nowhere in ICANN's 
structure do I find an equivalent representation of the Registrant 
constituency, or indeed even the existence of a Registrant's constituency.

Registrants in the coming year are estimated to be paying ICANN (through their 
Transactions with Registrars) $11,788,252 of ICANN's total projected income of 
$23,453,760.

That is a lot of taxation for zero representation.

Yrs,

Richard H


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