[governance] who owns the new gTLDs?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Playing this lottery and paying ICANN travel surely has putting the money in bills into a bin and lighting a match beat ... But there's no more utility in one than in the other.

So it would be a CFO not quite in a position to read facts who does this

--srs (iPad)

On 05-Mar-2013, at 3:58, Lee W McKnight <lmcknigh at syr.edu> wrote:

> If I may express a separate but related frustration....tying back to prior discussion on taxes, and tax havens.
> 
> US companies that earn profits overseas often are reluctant to repatriate the profits to the US, instead leaving the $ parked offshore.
> 
> Most of the big US tech companies have such cash stockpiles; which is a tad frustrating to US entrepreneurs suggesting new opportunities to them.
> 
> So....it seems that some found a use for some of that cash, ie paying gtld filing fees. 
> 
> Playing the GTLD lottery beats paying taxes, I guess must be their CFO's thinking. Sigh.
> 
> Lee
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> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 5:09 PM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Dominique Lacroix
> Subject: Re: [governance] who owns the new gTLDs?
> 
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Dominique Lacroix <dl at panamo.eu> wrote:
>> Le 04/03/13 22:31, McTim a écrit :
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Dominique Lacroix <dl at panamo.eu> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Sala,
>> 
>> Thanks Carlos for the mention. Yes, I distributed a paper leaflet to some
>> friends in Paris, during the WSIS.
>> The demonstration is clear.
>> Two journal articles are going to be published. Please, just wait a few
>> days.
>> I asked the question about tax heavens to Fadi Chehadé in Paris, and to 3
>> members of ICANN board/GNSO.
>> 
>> Why would you have any reasonable expectation that ICANN would have
>> anything to do with this issue?
>> 
>> Absolutely right. ICANN has not anything to do with public interest.
> 
> ICANN has a very narrow remit.  Asking them to police where
> corporations are housed is well out of scope.
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> ICANN must have a fair, open and transparent application process for
>> new TLDs.  They can't discriminate against folks who decide to
>> incorporate in a specific location!!  Can you imagine the litigation
>> if they did?
>> 
>> Is anyone even surprised by these numbers?
>> 
>> These numbers also demonstrate two failings of the TLDs program:
>> - outreach,
>> - developping countries.
> 
> Having lived in developing countries for nearly a decade, I can say
> that folks there do run registrars and know that they can make money
> registering domain names for their customers.
> 
> The business case for running a TLD registry is less clear to them
> (and to me).  Would you risk 185k USD on the off chance you would win
> the rights to sell registrations under a specific word?
> 
> I think that ICANN could have spent more time and money on outreach
> and education around new TLDs, but I doubt that it would have
> seriously boosted the number of folk from the developing world who
> were willing to ante up to play in this particular poker game.
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> 
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
> 
> 
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