[governance] Public Interest Registry sale by ISOC - .org management sold for profit

[Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond]

Hello all,

I have no information on the value of the deal but taking into account
that this is a legacy TLD, that there are also 2 other TLDs involved,
.ONG and .NGO, and counting the total number of registrations in these,
comparing it with Verisign's worth with its number of registrations in
.COM - Verisign as an example, with 154.5 Million domains in .COM and
15.6 million domains in .NET, valued at nearly US$22Bn and PIR in 11.3
million domains in .ORG - one could conservatively say that PIR should
be at least worth US$1.5 Bn.

Also 8% return p/a is unachievable for an endowment fund that needs to
be low risk.
You'd be lucky to get 3-4% if you want to keep the risk low.
Kindest regards,

Olivier

On 21/11/2019 19:54, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>
>> On Nov 21, 2019, at 7:52 AM, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net> wrote:
>>
>> I agree it wont be billions, I expect 700-950m USD, multistage payment contingent on continued operation and performance would be pretty standard terms.
> Yeah, I agree, that seems like a reasonable estimate.  And at an 8% return, the endowment could be expected to produce something on the order of $65M/year.
>
>                                 -Bill
>

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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html

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