Karl Auerbach on Nostr: Wanna know nutz? It this: "ICANN has set the expected evaluation fee for the next ...
Wanna know nutz? It this:
"ICANN has set the expected evaluation fee for the next round of new generic top-level domain applications at USD $227,000."
$227K per application. When we filed several dozens in the last round, at about $190,000 a pop, the applications (several hundred pages each) were virtually identical except for a page or two. Yet ICANN insisted that each one had to be separately reviewed by its hired contractor. That contractor and ICANN made off with nearly $400,000,000 in those application fees when, in truth, a proper recognition of the actual costs of review would have been far less.
ICANN and its cabal of suckling companies are very much a domain-name-industrial-complex that is costing internet users a pile of $$ every year.
https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-sets-expected-evaluation-fee-for-new-gtld-applications-in-the-next-round-25-09-2024-en
"ICANN has set the expected evaluation fee for the next round of new generic top-level domain applications at USD $227,000."
$227K per application. When we filed several dozens in the last round, at about $190,000 a pop, the applications (several hundred pages each) were virtually identical except for a page or two. Yet ICANN insisted that each one had to be separately reviewed by its hired contractor. That contractor and ICANN made off with nearly $400,000,000 in those application fees when, in truth, a proper recognition of the actual costs of review would have been far less.
ICANN and its cabal of suckling companies are very much a domain-name-industrial-complex that is costing internet users a pile of $$ every year.
https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-sets-expected-evaluation-fee-for-new-gtld-applications-in-the-next-round-25-09-2024-en