Comments on: ICANN Predicts 500 new gTLD Applications & A $2M Profit, but It’s Budget Is Flawed

By: Jim Fleming

Jim Fleming — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 13:29:35 +0000

According to the FAG
://icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/draft-rfp-redline-12nov10-en.pdf

“A process external to the application submission process will be employed to establish evaluation priority. This process will be based on an online ticketing system or other objective criteria.”

By: Jim Fleming

Jim Fleming — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:17:43 +0000

As a historic note, ICANN (not IANA) was ONLY created to do Proof-of-Concept TLD Market Trials. That served several purposes:

1. It proved new TLDs could be added. Some did not believe there was demand. Some claimed there would never be domainers or a “domain name industry”. Many .COM advocates still do not care about (acknowledge) other TLDs.
IDNs will be a tough sell in many camps. They are easy to filter out for other
reasons.

2. Another purpose for ICANN was to buy time for the new DNS, which is now
being automated and de-regulated. [The good news is, that has happened. The bad news is, that is happening but ICANN is apparently not going away.]

3. A third purpose was to attempt to move DNS and protocol development
away from government domination, funding, etc. [The good news is that has
happened. The bad news is a Socialist Cyber-Governance structure has
replaced that, making it worse than before. The same bad actors moved
from one system to the other. ]

One over-arching result is that 99% of the actors/players have been “outed”.
It now costs about $100,000,000 per year to provide adult supervision for
them. They are well-known and kept well-away from any critical DNS or
.NET evolutionary technology.

By: M

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:42:50 +0000

Mike,

I think it is 184 point 6 or 184.6 so add 3 zeros and you get $184,600

By: Cartoonz

Cartoonz — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:03:05 +0000

creative accounting.

By: MHB

MHB — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:02:29 +0000

Costs are listed in the budget

By: Cartoonz

Cartoonz — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:00:45 +0000

WHAT “cost”?

That’s complete bullshit. They are going for what we all know is the single largest cash grab they’ve ever attempted…. for a mere “$184k” not too f’ing likely

By: Stuart Lawley

Stuart Lawley — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:13:28 +0000

but just to repeat, ICANN’s ‘REAL” profit is the over $40 million they keep as “contingency”, very clever….

By: M. Menius

M. Menius — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:09:11 +0000

I read “500 new tld’s” and I ask myself is everyone crazy? Seriously.

3 or 4 new gtld’s, maybe.

500? Retarded.

By: Jim Fleming

Jim Fleming — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:05:50 +0000

With the new DNS the selection of TLDs is Automated (Untouched by Humans).
What exactly is ICANN “selling” ? another Proof-of-Concept Market Trial ?

The number of slots has been expanded from 2048 to 4096.
http://www.icann.org/en/comments-mail/icann-current/msg00342.html

10514 INC
9264 ONLINE
7288 NET
6472 USA
4481 GROUP
4101 WEB
3891 TECH
3077 UK
2762 DESIGN
2570 SYSTEMS
2542 IT
2415 US
2378 SOLUTIONS
2322 LINE
2209 LAW
2171 CONSULTING
2161 INFO
2033 SERVICES
2027 WORLD

By: Stuart Lawley

Stuart Lawley — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:05:50 +0000

hate to be pedantic Mike but if you look at the net revenue it is $41,739,000 less cost $41,555,100 which leaves “profit” of $ 183,900.

on the form is show 184 (,000).