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0:190 ORG.....$319,000....$125,000



> > Subject: $319,000....$125,000
>  
> > > http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-19jul02.htm
> > > "Whereas, the President has made arrangements for consultants
> > > to provide evaluations of various aspects of the applications;"

If the cost of reviewing 11 applicants is $125,000, then that is about $10,000 per applicant.
Jon Postel once suggested that people pay him (aka IANA) $10,000 for a TLD. It looks
like the "will of the IANA" has come to pass, maybe the "losing" 10 applicants should each
be allowed to launch a TLD of their choice. It would be interesting to see if any TLDs they
would want are not already in Proof-of-Concept 32-bit DNS development.
http://root-dns.org

Since ICANN is a non-profit, and based on cost-recovery, it would seem the applicants
would all be due a refund of about $20,000 each. The applicants can all of course view it
as a large *donation* to the non-profit sector, and write it off. The large for-profit companies
of course like the arrangement because they get Free Address Space, while others have to
pay into the Multi-Level-Marketing (MLM) machine.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space

Jim Fleming
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt


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