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

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

Wasn't that $50,000 spent to fund the competitors and to give them a couple of years to delay ?
...while companies that were ready...long before the beauty pageant...were denied access to U.S. Government servers ?...simply
because The Big Lie Society was able to keep people illiterate...while setting up illegal lotteries...etc...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Marsh" <marshm@anycast.net>
To: "Jim Fleming" <JimFleming@Ameritech.Net>; <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 11:59 PM
Subject: RE: [ga] The Rio Party Budget...$8,300,000 ?


> 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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