Re: [lac-discuss-en] [At-Large] The Case for Regulatory Capture at ICANN | Review Signal Blog
But why? Any back-of-the-envelope calculation for TLDs such as .com or
.org strongly suggests that the existing registry fee levels are
dramatically too high - and cumulate well past a $billion a year in
monopoly rents far in excess of actual costs.
Running a registry is largely a back room operation - some database
transaction servers and a cloud of actual DNS name servers.
Since ICANN was formed the cost of those things has fallen and fallen
and fallen. And the cost of much of the infrastructure - such as
Verisign's fortress data center(s) have been amortized years ago.
As far as I know there has never been an audit, much less a serious
audit that distinguishes between real operational costs and Potemkin
Village corporate image fluff costs, of actual costs of providing legacy
TLD registry services.
One would think that an audit - published to the public - would be
warranted before any consideration of unleashing unbounded upwards
prices onto captive legacy TLD users?
--karl--
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