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

["Gene Marsh" <marshm@anycast.net>]

Jim,

You forgot about the $50,000 per TLD applicant (say, 2500 for your
theoretical 2048) which could be $125,000,000.

Gene...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Jim
> Fleming
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 12:34 AM
> To: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: [ga] The Rio Party Budget...$8,300,000 ?
>
>
> 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."
> ====
>
> 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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