[governance] who owns the new gTLDs?

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:

> Dear folks, this may or may not pertain to any current thread of
> "dialogue", but is nonetheless quite interesting, and perhaps revealing of
> the nature of the gTLD business.
>
> Journalist Dominique Lacroix (Le Monde) has put together some statistics
> regarding the economic interests behind the gTLD craze unleashed by ICANN:
>

This is interesting Carlos and Dominique. Do you have the URL to the piece
that Dominique wrote?

>
> - 393 US applications are by US companies' branches based in European tax
> heavens (including 76 bids by Amazon Luxemburg);
>
> - the total of gTLD applications by US companies' branches based in tax
> heavens is 891; just 390 applications are formally from US-based companies'
> headquarters;
>
> - in summary, 47% of all gTLD applications are operations by US companies'
> branches based in tax heavens;
>
> - of the total 1930 bids, 1455 (75,4%) will be run by one of seven US
> backend operators.
>
> fraternal regards
>
> --c.a.
>
>
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