[ga] How much will we get per DN?

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@online.fr>]

The new TLDs are going to financially support the AmerICANN.
I have a few questions:

- this is not related to any rendered servic? Just a support for its
   educational, reasearch and charity endeavors. Yet it is billed
   very precisely...  Looks very much like a tax to me?

- how much: I have enclose the text and I cannot figure out how
   much that represent.
http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/unsponsored/registry-agmt-11may01.htm

I think it would be great for us to know how much the AmerICANN
will get per Domain Name. May be could we get a few pennies
for the NonCom and the GA?

Jefsey


3.14. Registry-Level Financial Support of ICANN. During the Term of this 
Agreement, Registry Operator shall pay to ICANN the following fees:

3.14.1. Fixed Registry-Level Fee. Registry Operator shall pay ICANN a 
quarterly Fixed Registry-Level Fee in an amount established by the ICANN 
Board of Directors, in conformity with the ICANN bylaws and articles of 
incorporation, not to exceed one quarter of the annual Fixed Registry-Level 
Fee Cap described in Subsection 3.14.4.

3.14.2. Variable Registry-Level Fee. Registry Operator shall pay ICANN a 
quarterly Variable Registry-Level Fee in an amount calculated according to 
a formula and method established from time to time by the ICANN Board of 
Directors, in conformity with the ICANN bylaws and articles of 
incorporation. The formula and method shall allocate the total variable fee 
among all TLDs sponsored or operated under a sponsorship or registry 
agreement with ICANN (whether the fee is collected at the registry or 
registrar level) based on the relative size of the registries for those 
TLDs. It shall be permissible for the formula and method so established to 
do any of the following: (a) to measure the size of a TLD's registry, at 
least once per year where feasible, by the number of names under 
administration within the TLD by the registry's operator, (b) to deem the 
number of domain names under administration within the Registry TLD to be 
the number of Registered Names, (c) to provide for a deduction in computing 
a sponsor's or operator's Variable Registry-Level Fee of some or all of 
that sponsor's or registry operator's Fixed Registry-Level Fee, and (d) to 
provide that the number of domain names under administration for the .com, 
.net, and .org TLDs is the number of second-level domains within those 
TLDs. It shall also be permissible for the formula and method to consider 
accreditation fees collected from registrars as a credit applied to the 
Variable Registry-Level Fee for the TLD to which the fees pertain. Groups 
of registries for two or more TLDs may, with the agreement of their 
sponsors or operators and ICANN, agree to allocate the variable fee 
collected from them in a manner not based on the relative size of the 
registries within the group, provided that the combined variable fees 
collected for all TLDs within the group is based on the combined size of 
the registries in the group.

3.14.3. Payments Must Be Timely. Registry Operator shall pay the quarterly 
Fixed and Variable Registry-Level Fees within thirty days after the date of 
ICANN's invoice for those fees. These payments shall be made in a timely 
manner throughout the Term of this Agreement and notwithstanding the 
pendency of any dispute between Registry Operator and ICANN. Registry 
Operator shall pay interest on payments not timely made at the rate of 1% 
per month or, if less, the maximum rate permitted by California law.

3.14.4. Fee Caps. The Fixed Registry-Level Fee Cap shall be [depends on TLD 
type: US$100,000 for unrestricted and US$80,000 for restricted] per year 
until and including 30 June 2002; shall automatically increase by 15% on 
July 1 of each year beginning in 2002; and may be increased by a greater 
amount in the manner provided by Subsection 4.3 The sum of the Fixed 
Registry-Level Fees and the Variable Registry-Level Fees due to be paid in 
any year ending on any 30 June during or within one year after the Term of 
this Agreement by all TLD sponsors and registry operators having 
sponsorship or registry agreements with ICANN shall not exceed the Total 
Registry-Level Fee Cap described in the following sentence. The Total 
Registry-Level Fee Cap shall be US$5,500,000 for the fiscal year ending 30 
June 2002; shall increase by 15% each fiscal year thereafter; and may be 
increased by a greater amount in the manner provided by Subsection 4.3.

3.14.5. Adjustments to Price. The maximum pricing for initial and renewal 
registrations set forth in Appendix G shall be adjusted at the beginning of 
each calendar quarter by adding, to the amount specified in that Appendix 
(after adjustment according to Subsection 4.4) as the applicable annual 
charge for initial or renewal registration of a domain name, an amount 
calculated according to the following three sentences. For calendar 
quarters in which the variable fee is collected at the registrar level, the 
amount shall be US$0.00. For the first two calendar quarters during the 
Term of this Agreement in which the variable fee is collected at the 
registry level, the amount shall be four times the per-name variable 
accreditation fee charged to registrars for the quarter beginning six 
months earlier. For subsequent calendar quarters, the amount shall be four 
times the quarterly Variable Registry-Level Fee reflected in the invoice to 
Registry Operator for such a fee for the quarter beginning six months 
earlier divided by the number of Registered Names that the invoice shows 
was used to calculate that quarterly Variable Registry-Level Fee.

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