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Hello all,<br>
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I have no information on the value of the deal but taking into
account that this is a legacy TLD, that there are also 2 other TLDs
involved, .ONG and .NGO, and counting the total number of
registrations in these, comparing it with Verisign's worth with its
number of registrations in .COM - Verisign as an example, with 154.5
Million domains in .COM and 15.6 million domains in .NET, valued at
nearly US$22Bn and PIR in 11.3 million domains in .ORG - one could
conservatively say that PIR should be at least worth US$1.5 Bn.<br>
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Also 8% return p/a is unachievable for an endowment fund that needs
to be low risk.<br>
You'd be lucky to get 3-4% if you want to keep the risk low.<br>
Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/11/2019 19:54, Bill Woodcock
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Nov 21, 2019, at 7:52 AM, James Gannon <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:james@cyberinvasion.net"><james@cyberinvasion.net></a> wrote:
I agree it wont be billions, I expect 700-950m USD, multistage payment contingent on continued operation and performance would be pretty standard terms.
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Yeah, I agree, that seems like a reasonable estimate. And at an 8% return, the endowment could be expected to produce something on the order of $65M/year.
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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
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