<html><head><meta charset="UTF-8"></head><body style="zoom: 0%;"><div dir="auto">I had not given that matter thought in my initial statement, but in general the economist in my favors, in this case, simple sealed bid auctions. There applicants have to make a "best guess" based on their business case estimates. This avoids bidding wars, and a bit less revenue to ICANN, but is also gives the winner a cost based on their business case estimates. ICANN going for more, and gamblers will likely disagree with me.<br><br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote" >On Jun 14, 2024, at 8:50 p.m., Rubens Kuhl <<a href="mailto:rubensk@nic.br" target="_blank">rubensk@nic.br</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Em 14 de jun. de 2024, à(s) 11:55, trachtenbergm--- via SubPro-IRT <subpro-irt@icann.org> escreveu:
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Can you clarify what you mean by “sealed bids”? Are you suggesting applications submit sealed bids for their application fees?
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I took it as not having ascending bids for auction of last resort. What I am unsure is whether this would apply only to contention sets with supported applicants (those would only have a single round) or to all auctions of last resort.
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