Re: [ICANN-EU] Re: Don't waste your endorsement

[Marc Schneiders <marc@venster.nl>]

Jeff and others interested,

On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Jeff Williams wrote:

> Marc and all,
> 
>   The Tax that ICANN is attempting to levy is not legal in all
> countries.  The US for instance.  Taxation without representation
> is not legal as I said and is unnecessary as a means of funding
> for ICANN.  

Well ICANN has been complaining about its insufficient funding... The new
gTLDs may change this to the better from an ICANN perspective. There is
not much choice for us at the moment. Moving to another country doesn't
help in this case.

> We have been here before with ICANN and their
> wanting to TAX the internet in some fashion.  The US Congress
> nixed any taxes on the internet for several years.  How or why
> the ICANN board believes with the Registry agreement that it can
> sneak this TAX by again is beyond me....

Yes, I can share your feelings here. I would not be surprised though CORE
will be more than willing to pay 33 cents to ICANN on all the domains they
will be allowed to sell starting early next year. And we will all buy them
from CORE. Won't we?

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> 
> Marc Schneiders wrote:
> 
> > On 11 Sep 2000, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> >
> > > * Marc Schneiders wrote:
> > > >On 8 Sep 2000, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> > > >> * Marc Schneiders wrote:
> > > >> > Maybe by introducing new gTLDs with the customary tax of $0.33 for each
> > > >> > domain? (Did you know about that by the way? Not many seem to do.)
> > > >>
> > > >> I heard about such proposals but--as you can imagine--I was not able to
> > > >> follow all news (and olds) while laying down at doctor's couch. So I'm
> > > >> really proud of nearly dealing with all mail of the last weeks. If I missed
> > > >> some questions, please mail me.
> > > >
> > > >This is not a proposal. This is an existing tax.
> > >
> > > No I found it, too.
> >
> > You mean "Yes,..." I assume.
> >
> > > >Did you not know where the Corporation you were running for, gets its
> > > >money from?
> > >
> > > No, did you expect me reading all documents available? You are wrong.
> >
> > I might have been wrong if I would have been expecting that. I did not.
> > I was amazed that you did not know about the ICANN tax on
> > domains. Especially since you were so vocal against new gTLDs, which would
> > through the tax improve ICANNs financial position significantly.
> > So I do think, that you should have known about it, yes. Is that wrong?
> >
> > > I read the most important ones, those defining the cooperation. it's history
> > > in short, and some critical dispute documents.
> >
> > Yes, maybe ICANN does not communicate about the tax it levies very
> > much... It has been in the press recently though, when a substantive
> > number of ccTLD registries refused to pay it...
> >
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> 
> Regards,
> 
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