[governance] ICANN taxes/fees

[Vittorio Bertola]

veni markovski ha scritto:
>> to say that no comparison is possible throws out almost all of
>> current business theory.  (which sounds like something i am more
>> likely to do then you.)
> 
> Well, I try not to compare businesses which are different in their 
> foundation, regardless of the fact that they seem similar.

Ok, I will then clarify my comparison.

To run a low-budget, no-frills TLD registry (with no registrars in the 
middle, such as .eu.org, or such as all those ccTLDs that were still 
using InterNIC's email forms a few years ago) you possibly need an 
online set of forms that authenticate end users and let them enter 
information into a database, which then, whenever someone connects to 
the servers with a DNS client, is interrogated by pieces of software 
that automatically generate a DNS reply. All of this with the highest 
throughput, redundancy and reliability possible.

To run Wikipedia, instead, you need an online set of forms that 
authenticate end users and let them enter information into a database, 
which then, whenever someone connects to the servers with an HTTP 
client, is interrogated by pieces of software that automatically 
generate an HTTP reply. All of this with the highest throughput, 
redundancy and reliability possible.

Assuming that you're doing the service for free and so there is no 
billing or customer relationships, what's the difference among the two?

(I guess that your issue is that you see the two things from a business 
side, where they appear different, while I am seeing them from the 
technical side, where they are almost identical; unfortunately, while 
you can't have the business side without having the technical side 
attached behind, the fact that you put a business side on top of the 
technical side is entirely optional.)
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