RE: [ga] FYI: Staff Draft towards Mission Statement

["Peter de Blanc" <pdeblanc@usvi.net>]

Kent, I agree with Per Koelle- 

Again, I speak of ccTLDs, not gTLDs, ICANN-approved registrars, and
other "by contract" situations.

There are only about 244 ccTLDs possible, according to iso3166, and we
know that many of those are not operational.

Peter de Blanc

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org] On Behalf Of Per
Koelle
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:40 AM
To: Kent Crispin
Cc: ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] FYI: Staff Draft towards Mission Statement


On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Kent Crispin wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:32:38AM -0500, Peter de Blanc wrote:
> > It is truely amazing that something once  done by volunteers, like 
> > building and co-ordinating the operation of the global Internet 
> > prior to, say 1995 or 1996,
>
> 1) In 95/96 there was a paid IANA staff, though it is true that a lot 
> of work was done by people who were paid under rather non-specific 
> contracts.
[SNIP]

>
> > What is even MORE amazing is that the US $ 5 million  is just the 
> > tip of the iceberg.
>
> No, it is not amazing at all.  If anything, given the demands made on 
> ICANN, it is amazingly *cheap*.  As an end user, this is working out 
> to around $.20/domain name per year (3% of the dominant wholesale 
> cost) to pay for the global coordination functions that ICANN 
> provides.

Dear Kent,

This is rubbish (and you af all should know),

As far as TLD's is concerned, ICANN/IANA is (only) managing a database
with
+250 entries !!!!
I (for one) run a similar thing with +370.000 entries for around USD 3
mil.!

Regards
Per Kølle
..DK


>
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