[governance] ICANN taxes/fees

[Vittorio Bertola]

Veni Markovski ha scritto:
> I am not as sure as you are about it. But I am more interested in the
> business model, not in the technical one. Technically one can probably
> do anything. But running a business is not that easy, and earlier in
> the conversation we talked about running a registry, which is running
> a business, not running a server.

I still don't see why, if the conditions are clear (e.g. no customer 
service, no SLAs, etc.). There are plenty of non-business DNS services 
(or pro-bono free offerings by businesses) that have been offering for 
free, for many years, not just free domain names (www.eu.org), but free 
DNS servers (http://soa.granitecanyon.com/). Many TLDs are still 
operated on a free, voluntary basis, either by individuals or with 
public support.

There are plenty of similar services in other fields (e.g. where 
technical capability and a certain amount of money to support growth are 
necessary, but the overall concept is a non-profit community getting 
organized to support the free service) and many of them work well and 
reliably, even more reliably than commercial counterparts. Did you ever 
hear about Wikipedia? :) (And what if people were required to pay 
250'000$ to open a new language version of Wikipedia, just as an 
"application processing fee", without even getting servers and hosting 
in exchange?)

Moreover, the idea that, since you can make money with it, no one could 
or even should do it for free is quite troublesome to me.
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