Thanks to all those folks who volunteered - it will be good if NCUC/NCSG can form this group and it can start working by 1 April.

Not only is it an issue of interest to many in our community and that is assuming some importance in the build-up to the roll-out of new gTLDs, but (as was mentioned previously) in response to the Board's passing of Resolution 20 at the Nairobi meeting, a joint ALAC-GNSO Working Group is likely to be formed, to "develop a sustainable approach to providing support to applicants requiring assistance in applying for and operating new gTLDs".

Right now, it seems that we have volunteers and otherwise-interested-in-the-issue folks that include Jorge, Nuno, Rafik, Alex and David, working with Avri's contact from CORE. Did I miss out anyone or misinterpret anyone's email intentions? I apologize if so - the torrent of emails has been tough to keep up with!

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From:	Nuno Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
To:	<[log in to unmask]>
Date:	3/19/2010 9:46 AM
Subject:	Re: Cost estimates for new TLDs

I volunteer too.

Nuno Garcia

2010/3/19 Alex Gakuru <[log in to unmask]>

Hi Avri,

I am interested in being part of this group.

regards,

Alex

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Avri Doria <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If we put together a group to work on this, I do have a volunteer from Core who will work with us.
>
> a.
>
> On 19 Mar 2010, at 09:02, David Cake wrote:
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>> At 5:52 PM -0500 18/3/10, Jorge Amodio wrote:
>>> I'll check on my side, but do we have any good contacts at CORE to see if they are willing to share some cost estimates that we can use to plug in a financial projection exercise ?
>>
>> I agree it would be useful to know.
>> It would also be interesting to know how much registries charge to run this sort of relatively low registrant domain - eg how much does Afilias charge for running the various small ccTLDs it runs?
>> What are the intrinsic cost differences between running a ccTLD, and a gTLD?
>> Cheers
>> David
>