RE: [ga] Re: Discussion draft -- ICANN reorganization

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

Rather than have the US government fund ICANN, why not auction off a TLD
annually?

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Peter de Blanc wrote:

> Those ccTLDs can hardly afford US  $ 7,200. in fact in one of the
> countries I am referring to, a special permit is required to convert
> local cash to US $.
> 
> Perhaps another alternative is to simply get the US Government to fund
> ICANN to the level of, say $ 5 million per year, or even $ 10 million as
> a "base grant". 

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