Comments on: ICANN to Charge $185,000 for New TLD Applications

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Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:18:15 +0000

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Confluence: Productivity Applications — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:24:12 +0000

Week of October 27, 2008…

gTLD Applicant Guidebook public comment forum…

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:25:15 +0000

After the first 500 application fees are accepted and collected – historical costs of implementation should be covered – so the fees should drop by $26,000.
Managing and evaluating applications which is estimate to cost $100,000 should become more efficient and less expensive for ICANN reducing fees maybe as much as $50,000 in the coming years.
The remaining $60,000 to cover “unknowns” may disappear altogether as nobody ever knew what
this portion of the fees was for in the first place.
So, applications fees for ‘Custom TLDS’ after the first round could potentially drop to $49,000.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:39:06 +0000

GPS – I think those are some of the things that will be discussed in the comment period.

By: GPS

GPS — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:24:24 +0000

So, if someone proposes .anything and ICANN says no, it appears that some/most/all the $185k is, poof, gone? Or, if 5 entities propose the same .anything, ICANN may choose to award it to one party, and keep all 5 application fees?