[governance] [article] Did ISOC leave $1 billion on the table?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

The story I read had a goose instead of a hen but not really.  If the pricing goes above a certain extent domainers will stay away, but most non profits should be able to afford it.  $15 moving to even $25 a year is, for example, less than the cost you can spend on a dinner with your family in India (or a very modest meal stateside)

 

As I said, given the relatively few non profits compared to domainer owned domains (or general population owned domains) in .org, the new buyer could just provide free registration to registered nonprofits and still not see any appreciable difference to his numbers.

 

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Subject: Re: [governance] [article] Did ISOC leave $1 billion on the table?

 

Should it be compared with 

The story hen of golden eggs... 

 

On Monday, 2 December 2019, 14:06:47 GMT+5, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote: 

 

 

I found it interesting as well.

 

I think it’s worth understanding that the analyst doesn’t understand ISOC’s goal. The motivation driving ISOC is to disentangle itself from the domain name. Maximizing revenue is a strong, but dependent goal. From my observation and conversations, ISOC is completely uninterested in maximizing revenue to a degree which would require that they stay in the business of selling domain names, or stay dependent on the ebbs and flows of that business. 

 

So some of his recommendations are substantially off the mark. 

    

                -Bill

 




On Dec 2, 2019, at 09:43, Ayden Férdeline <ayden at ferdeline.com> wrote:



A venture capitalist and ex-Mckinsey consultant offers some thoughts on the ISOC sale of PIR, and concludes that ISOC has undervalued PIR by about US $1 billion. This analysis is not perfect (it seems to conflate revenue with earnings) but is interesting nonetheless:

 

https://lancewiggs.com/2019/12/01/did-isoc-leave-1-billion-on-the-table/

 

Best wishes, 

Ayden Férdeline

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