[council] Rodenbaugh Comment re GNSO Restructure Amendments to ICANN Bylaws

[Avri Doria]

On 24 Aug 2009, at 12:25, Mike Rodenbaugh wrote:

> Yet it is those "Non-Contracting" commercial interests that  
> essentially fund
> by far the greatest portion of ICANN's budget through their domain
> registration fees, and it is those commercial interests that make  
> domain
> names valuable.

I question whether this is true or not and wonder if there have been  
any studies done.

Yes, it is certain that registrants provide most all of ICANN funds.

But are most registrants, those providing the ICANN share of the  
registration fee, commercial or non-commercial?  organizations or  
individuals?

My expectation is that it is individuals, but I would be curious to  
know if there is any fact based data on this.


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