ICANN Proposes Fee Hike for Registrars...thus the End-Users suffer!!

[silhouette]

In its 2004-2005 budget proposal, ICANN includes:

*a new fee that will average around $5000 to around $24000 per registrar and

*a 25 cent fee for each domain sold

how will that affect us??

http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/ica052804.cfm

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[clemzonguy]

Knew this would happen sooner or later....
This could really do some damage.

[Martin23]

Meands domain costs on the way up.

[Steen]

Doesn't ICANN already charge the registrar 12 cents per domain/year?

[bidawinner]

on your best names you may want to renew for multiple years.it seems inevitable registration prices have to rise a bit ..profit margins are just to thin...

[sumo]

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[theparrot]

Not true for larger registrars. On the contrary, the cost per domain of larger registrars will decrease by 12.5 cents.

http://www.icannbudget.org/impact_on_registrars.shtml

It will diminish private and drop catching registrars.

Uh, thats not how I read it at all.... you can not call a decrease in the full potential increase a real decrease now can you?

The cost will go up ... it just will not go up as much for the larger registers as it would have if the old model of a per domain fee only was kept.

It seems to me that ICANN is growing too big and bloated with this type of budget. It is proposed, who can say no to them, and tell them to cut it back?

[lilian]

It's a bad news for small registrars.

[theparrot]

Thats true, and the $6 Verisign gets per name is outragous, they should drop it to $4, give $1 to ICANN and cut prices by the other dollar and everyone wins but Verisign, who is clearly making too much at $6 a name when registars that have to take credit cards and deal with end users can get by on much smaller margins.

[silhouette]

seems like lots of ppl are unhappy and reacted..

Seventy-five registrars from around the world have banded together to protest the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number's (ICANN) proposed 2004-2005 budget, which significantly raises the yearly fee for registrars regardless of size.

http://asia.internet.com/news/article.php/3377011

[Smith]

You can't blame ICANN, I mean those week long quarterly vacations around the world are expensive . . . damn . . . I meant conferences.

It was amazing to be sitting in a hotel in Rome listening to the board whine about funding shortfalls. Maybe someone should bring this up at the next meeting in South Africa.