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

[lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)]

* Marc Schneiders wrote:
>On 11 Sep 2000, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
>> * Marc Schneiders wrote:
>>> 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.

We might use different words for the same action. ICANN can not tax domains.
They can create contracts with registrars containing such a payment method.
But this is a fee, not a tax.

This contract based fee is the reason to do not apply on ccSLDs, due to
missing contracts.

> 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?

Your reasoning is valid. I do not get the idea why the financial situation
of ICANN should be more important than the DNS system. So I did not even
came up with the importance of financial problems while dealing with my
opinion of the future system. I still believe that those are neglectable.

>> 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...

Ack.

> It has been in the press recently though, when a substantive number of
> ccTLD registries refused to pay it...

Of course, there is no contract.