On 15 Nov 2005 at 10:30, Horacio T. Cadiz wrote: > Does anyone have a breakdown of ICANN's revenues? It can be found on ICANNs budget pages, eg. http://www.icann.org/financials/adopted-budget-12aug05.html for the current year. OK, let's look at the numbers. This is just a quick overview, the budget is relatively complex and I am no accountant. So I might have made mistakes. For 2004/05 50% of ICANNs total revenue was gained by the gTLD transaction fees (25 cent per transaction). Verisign owns 82% of that market, so assumed that transaction amounts are in a linear relation to number of domains, in 2004/05 it paid $6.6Mio (of Mio$14.5) plus 150.000$ from tier3, so Verisign carried 46% of the total ICANN budget. The other important sum, Mio$ 5.7, was paid by the registrars, as I understand it. Figures for next year (Mio$): ICANN Total: 23.5 82% of Transaction: 9.7 (of 11.8) .net: 4.25 (29) tier 3: .15 VS subtotal: 14.1 --> 60% of ICANN revenues (29) "Successor Operator .NET -- $4,351,000 based on the unapproved proposed agreement forms and current number of names under management." Less than I thought, but still not bad. --iliya