Comment on GNSO Community Comment 2 (CC2) on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures / Consultation and review

[James Gannon]

And I will continue to say that ICANN has an obligation to ensure registries are run in a secure and stable manner, which running on a 486 does not make, not even if it was a DX =)

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From: Jeremy Malcolm [mailto:jmalcolm at eff.org] 
Sent: 24 May 2017 17:56
To: James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net>; NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Comment on GNSO Community Comment 2 (CC2) on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures / Consultation and review

On 24/5/17 12:24 am, James Gannon wrote:
> I think the point is that if an applicant cannot raise the application 
> fee, it will near impossible for them to raise the capital needed to 
> run a registry,

I had a registry for .org.au running on a 486 PC, though it never went live.  This was when Australia was taking tenders for the .org.au registry back in the day—but Chris Disspain was in charge, so the corporate schmoozers ended up with the contract, rather than my scrappy non-profit applicant.  We could easily have handled it, though.  Running a registry can be amazingly cheap, if you subtract all of the unnecessary administrative overhead that ICANN demands.

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