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

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ross,

I'm not about to agree to giving registrars a carte
blanche to set whatever prices they choose for this
service. 

As impact assessments must accompany any proposed
policy, I see this topic (ongoing registrant abuse by
way of onerous registrar fees) as very much in scope.

... and if you don't think that registrar fees are
onerous, consider the $260 that some
registrars/resellers charge for the Redemption Grace
Period fee (that only costs them $40).

regards,
Danny


--- Ross Rader <ross@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> 



       
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