[ga] The Rio Party Budget...$8,300,000 ?

["Jim Fleming" <JimFleming@ameritech.net>]

With ~415 people at the Rio .ORGy...
...and each with a budget of $20,000 for the week...

...that would be an $8,300,000 party budget...

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/registrars/Arc02/msg00921.html
"It is my guess that the incremental cost of one more registration to 
Verisign, Afilias and Neulevel is less than $0.25.  For Verisign, that 
would be a cost of 4.2%, Afilias 4.3%, Neulevel 4.7% on each registration."
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At $6 per name per year and a $5.75 profit per name...

1,443,478 domain names would need to be sold to pay for the RIO.ORGy...
...with 2,048 TLDs...that is only 704 SLD names per TLD...

That of course assumes that rent is not collected on the /8 allocations...
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
...which should be generating $5 to $6 billion dollars per year in revenue...
At $5.5 billion from /8 leases...that would fund 662 RIO parties each year...
...and domain names would be free...



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