Would you imagine in your wildest dreams someone wanting those kinds of dollars for themselves, and all they have to do is pick off small holders one by one and in so doing setting precedence as they go. Knowing that if the Snowe bill passes the take gets bigger. On top of this the small business owners have no $ coming in 24/7 to protect their interests, because knowone cares to pool assets to fund a passage residual income source used to protect their turf?

Our competition employs professional fund raisers, with a planned systematic approach to change our addresses to theirs. Its been going on now since I’ve been in the business for as long as I can remember.

The ad companies aren’t pushing direct navigation because they don’t control the addresses. They will not quit, without a fight. Please support a fund raising initiative for the I.C.A. “HelpRaiseFunds.com “

Ed – Michigan

There could be some great classes and even door prizes and auctions that would attract a huge turn out.

I share your frustration.

What is the added cost we are all going to pay to Verisign for its increased fees and how much would we have saved over 5 years if we would have been organized and gotten that contract stopped.

I do find it interesting that a domainer does a marketing campaign on NamePros and in 1-day gets 1000+ new email subscribers yet it is pulling teeth to get $295 out of this same group.

I ponder this…if initial domain registrations, lets not include renewals in this were $295 each – what then happens to these people. Or, as $295 each would greatly affect all of us, what if your very first ever domain, just 1 domain, the cost of entry was $295…would there just be a few active members and all the rest just looking in. These scenarios obviously do not exist, but just gives a thought.

I need to upgrade soon, before I sound like a multi-thousand dollar giving authority with just a simple $295 contribution. As mentioned though by you, there is tremendous value in membership base.

Excellent Idea.

It would have a huge impact on building membership.

I agree with you in principal, however I want to make sure that we are not digging into the same pockets.

TRAFFIC is already a $50K+ contributor to the ICA.

So is Oversee.net which runs domainfest.

Domainroundtable.com as far as I can tell has not contributed anything nor are they or Jay a member of the ICA.

You might suggest raising the price of admission by $100 per person that would then be contributed towards the ICA, but again those of us who are already members would be paying again.

I think the real key is to get those who go to these show and are not members of the ICA to join.

There are several hundred of these people out there.

Tomorrow we are going to look at those who are not on the list, and not contributors.