The ICANN suggest a $7500 to $50000 non refundable fee for new gTLD application to
cover its study costs. An equivalent amount of funding will be necessary to cover
the costs of the project.
I ran a quick evaluation
of the way to find that money in the case of the ".sys" gTLD proposition (interest
#3) and about the legal and political aspects involved.The common demand is that
gTLD management is not for profit to warranty its fair neutrality. This demand concerns
also sponsors to a larger extend since one identified commercial operator would be
a lower thread than scores of interested sponsors.
Allowing advanced registration
would be bad practice since the gTLD proposed projects may never take off.
Membership
is not the response either. Members would want pre-registrations as a counter-part
what is unacceptable.
One solution could be :
- to reduce de costs in retaining
first the 14 existing expressions of interest and asking them :
-
if they could manage to pay an application of $5000, K$10, K$50 ... $350
- under which delay after having been accepted
- to explain how
and why (amount and delay)
- to start with the analyzis of the best expected
return.
- to take advantage from received payments to create a mutual fund
to pay for applications analysis.
The financially most attractive gTLD would then
be treated first but would pay for the cost of public interest oriented projects.
Also, these project would probably be easier to handle as test new gTLD. I suppose
the avearge delay would not be worst than with a free analysis on a frst come first
serve basis.
I also suppose that a project like ".sys" could raise an high the
funding of an high registration fee more easily than others, and would be ready to
help projects of social benefit.
This is because it is far less concerned by inudtrial
property rights (which have necessarily already been accounted for) than others and
because each registrants will register or/and reserve hundredth of domain names at
once.
FYI the proposed ".sys" gTLD would be reserved to registrants already owning
100 domain names one or different TLDs using a given format and wanting to protect
it.
Examples:
http://corp_name-xxx.sys >> http://acme-usa.sys, acme-france.sys
http://ConceptApplication.sys
>> myhome-book.sys, myhome.flower.sys
http://application-station_nr.sys >> http://ad_screen-0110.sys