Re: [gnso-whois-wg] A few questions

[Ross Rader <ross@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny Younger wrote:
> (1) For the sake of curiosity, how many billion
> look-ups are now performed monthly?  
>
> (2) Under the OPOC proposal, how many monthly look-ups
> would be anticipated?  
>
> (3) Multiplying a "nominal fee" times the number of
> expected look-ups will yield about how many
> million/billion dollars for the registrar community? 

When I brought up the issue of fees, I did not use the term "cost 
recovery" (although Tom has). Consistent with ICANN's recent moves to 
stay out of the pricing game in the registry business, and their 
consistent position that registrar level pricing be set by market 
forces, I see no reason why the provision of these services should be 
different. This working group is proposing a new set of services, to 
which each registrar should be permitted to price in any manner they see 
fit.

The question of "who gets how much of what" is entirely irrelevent for 
this working group and vastly over-reaches ICANN's scope of policy 
making responsibility.

-ross