Hello, I asked Bruce Tonkin about documents related to cost and fees for newt gTLD and he sent those: did someone checked them yet? 2010/3/21 Bruce Tonkin <[log in to unmask]> > > > There are two papers available on the ICANN component of the costs. > > See: > > http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/cost-considerations-23oct08-en. > pdf<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/cost-considerations-23oct08-en. > pdf> > > and > > http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/cost-considerations-04oct09-en. > pdf<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/cost-considerations-04oct09-en. > pdf> > > There is also a paper on a benchmarking study on what is involved in > operating a registry. This was conducted by KPMG and compared 7 gTLDs > and 6 ccTLDs across 10 countries. > > See: > http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/benchmarking-report-15feb10-en. > pdf<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/benchmarking-report-15feb10-en. > pdf> > > Note that there are also some letter of credit requirements etc to be > able to provide funding to operate a registry for I think three > additional years, if a registry operator chooses to cease providing that > function. > > Regards, > Bruce Tonkin 2010/3/21 Avri Doria <[log in to unmask]> > On 20 Mar 2010, at 13:30, Jorge Amodio wrote: > > > If you are already defining what the outcome/goal of the working group > > has to be, there is no reason for a working group. > > > on the contrary. we have a hypothesis. > > perhaps WG is the wrong name, since Wg now come with baggage. > i am more the willing neologize a new name for a the small band that tries > to disprove the hypothesis that: > > - a well formed, but small, TLD registry operation that meets ICANN > requirements can be run for far less in development regions then it would > cost to run the same size registry in the developed world. > > if this can't be disproved and someone can show a reasonable cost breakdown > for a well formed Registry in a development region, then perhaps we can > dispel the perpetual comments that come like: > > > from http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg08596.html > > snip > > > My first question to any of them though > > would be to ask if the entry cost is too high, do you actually have the > > resources then to run a TLD? > > and this goes some way to dispelling one of the perpetual remarks one hears > whenever one tries to talk about lowering the prices (and just because the > staff says fees won't be lowered does not make that necessarily true) or > establishing a fund to help those who want to try and create a TLD despite > most of the rich people's world of ICANN being united against them. > > a. >