[registrars] Base fee to be a registrar in 2008

[Jay Westerdal]

So in 2008, The BASE COST to be a Registrar will be $156,000 a year.

After WLS happens, Registrars will drop like flies. And as the base cost
rises more registrars will drop as well. ICANN's budget states that there is
expected to be 250 Registrars by 2005. However this budget will have the
opposite effect and I predict every year after WLS there will be half as
many Registrars. This is great news if you have a few million domains, but a
real bummer if you have less then 250,000 domains.

Here is the speedsheet we have been passing around using projections of half
the registrars remaining each year.

Jay Westerdal
Name Intelligence, Inc.
http://www.nameintelligence.com 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org
[mailto:owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Eric Brunner-Williams
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 1:29 PM
To: elliot noss
Cc: Bhavin Turakhia; 'Eric Brunner-Williams'; 'Registrars Constituency';
brunner at nic-naa.net
Subject: Re: [registrars] Find attached a sheet to show you your per domain
cost vs other registrars

Ross,

Ok, so your comment was forward looking and speculative opinion.
Maybe true, maybe not. Thanks. My problem is that there is a big,
relative to USAWebhost's size, delta in the license cost for next
year. One budget cycle at a time, neh?

Eric
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