[governance] [govenance] The domain name racket goes on
parminder
parminder at itforchange.net
Thu Sep 18 09:32:04 EDT 2014
On Thursday 18 September 2014 06:50 PM, McTim wrote:
> Time for some reality based thinking here.
>
> ICANN has a lot of money, sure, however, they are spending it on IG
> conferences (NetMundial, IGF, and others that you folks are happy to
> participate in) at a prodigious rate.
Every meeting they attend, they more than extract their pound of
flesh... Net Mundial being a good example. They even got civil society
leads appointed for civil society apart .
>
> MOST of the money they have on hand is budgeted fro legal fees in
> case/when they get sued, so it is a 'war-chest" they can't touch.
Let them come out of the US, they would need a fraction of that kind of
expenditure.
>
> They have spent so much so fast that they are actually cutting the
> budget for 2015, as new gTLD revenues are significantly lower than
> what was anticipated.
>
> The latest in this saga is that the Gala, a staple of ICANN meetings
> has been cut from the Agenda.
>
> So not wallowing in cash, actually fairly strapped for it. These
> auctions reveneues don't go into the regular budget IIRC, but are put
> aside in the new gTLD kitty, in other words, they aren't really free
> to spend it as and when they wish.
Interesting! Then whose wishes they are able to spend it for? BTW, I
really will like to know who gave the ICANN mandate to get into Net
Mundial and WEF kind of things, which is basically trying to forge a new
global IG order far beyond the domain name space? But ICANN is hardly
answerable to me.
>
> So it's not all fancy lunches/dinners/biz class travel for ICANN
> staff. In fact, on the way home from Durban I saw several ICANN VPs
> in Economy.
The simple tasks that is the mandate of the ICANN to perform can be done
at maybe 5 percent of ICANN's budget or at least revenue. ICANN is just
highly puffed up for basically serving US's geopolitical interests Were
it not for that, it would have been 'disciplined' - including its
earning and expenditure - long long ago..
parminder
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:03 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net
> <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net>> wrote:
>
>
> On Thursday 18 September 2014 06:10 PM, Norbert Klein wrote:
>
> Thanks, Louis.
>
> How long will it still be possible to LOL?
>
>
> As long as a certain section of IG civil society remains so
> ingratiated with ICANN that they will never speak up anything that
> can lead to any real structural change in the ICANN, and make it
> really responsible to the global public. The quid pro quo of
> course being that ICANN spends a part of the money currying favour
> with this section of the civil society.
>
> I know this kind of thing is normally not said in the polite
> society of global IG, but what the heck... The loot cannot go on.
> And if those who are supposed to be the watch dogs turn pets, it
> must be called out in the larger public interest...
>
> parminder
>
>
>
> And how transparent is it where these dollars go?
>
> I remember there were some time not conclusive discussions
> about staff perks (some working on TLD system development),
> and some discussion about staff salaries or "benefits" - ICANN
> is a non-profit.
>
> So am I.
>
> What I have done from 1994 to more recently to connect the
> country to the Internet, to get the Cambodian script into
> Unicode, to help to organize the creation of localized Khmer
> Open Source software (now the official software for the
> Ministry of Education and everything under it in Teachers
> Training Colleges, Provincial Offices of Education, and
> schools that have computer), all that was also non-profit.
>
> But at the end, ICANN seems to have a lot of money.
>
>
> Norbert Klein
> Cambodia
>
>
> On 9/18/2014 7:17 PM, Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:
>
> Results Available for 17 September 2014 Auction.
>
> http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-2-17sep14-en
>
>
> Four applicants for BUY participated in the Auction.
> Amazon EU S.à r.l. prevailed in the Auction with the
> winning price of *$4,588,888.
> *
> Six applicants for TECH participated in the Auction. Dot
> Tech LLC prevailed in the Auction with the winning price
> of *$6,760,000*.
>
> Five applicants for VIP participated in the Auction. Top
> Level Domain Holdings prevailed in the Auction with the
> winning price of *$3,000,888*.
>
> Remember. ICANN is non-profit and no tax. LOL.
> .
> Louis
>
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