[registrars] Fw: ICANN Registrar Accreditation Fee Approval Letter

["elana broitman" <ebroitman@register.com>]

Dear Registrars: I am sure that you have all seen the attached letter from
ICANN regarding registrars' commitment to ICANN to pay the accreditation
fees for FY 2001-2002.

As you may recall, as your representatives to the ICANN Budget Committee,
Rob, John and I had insisted that registrars continue to pay their dues
directly to ICANN, as opposed to paying them to and through the registries.
In order to accomodate the registrar constituency, ICANN, in turn, requested
that registrars provide a commitment regarding fee payments.

While each of your companies will have to individually review the commitment
in the letter, I want to encourage you to review it and sign the letter if
you have no objections, as quickly as possible.

Regards,

Elana Broitman

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Halloran <halloran@icann.org>
To: Elana Broitman <ebroitman@register.com>
Cc: <legal@register.com>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 5:05 PM
Subject: ICANN Registrar Accreditation Fee Approval Letter


> Elana,
>
> I am writing to you (and all the other operational registrars) to seek
your
> approval for the level of registrar contributions to next year's ICANN
> budget.  Thank you for all your hard work on the Budget Group.  I hope
that
> you'll continue to assist us by arranging for a letter from register.com
> expressing your approval for next year's registrar contributions.
>
> As you're aware, ICANN's Board of Directors voted at its last meeting to
> approve the Fiscal Year 2001-2002 Budget <
> http://www.icann.org/financials/proposed-budget-14may01.htm>.  As in years
> past, ICANN Accredited Registrars will contribute to ICANN's budget
through
> both yearly accreditation fees and (quarterly) variable accreditation
fees.
> The yearly fees have been set at US$4,000 for the first TLD for which you
> are accredited, plus US$500 for each additional TLD.  The formula for
> determining the variable accreditation fees remains essentially the same
as
> at present, and with the growth of the Internet the fee should continue
its
> general decline on a per-name basis.  (For your reference, you can find a
> chart showing all registrar contributions for the current fiscal year at
> <http://www.icann.org/financials/gtld-contribution-chart-00-01.htm>.)
>
> The Registrar Accreditation Agreement provides that these fees must be
> expressly approved by enough registrars to account for two-thirds of all
the
> registrar fees to be paid.  We'd like it if we could get 100% registrar
> approval for the registrar contributions to ICANN.
>
> If Register.com, Inc. would like to voice its approval for next year's
fees,
> please sign and send (by any means) a letter containing the below text to:
>
> ICANN
> 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
> Marina del Rey, CA 90292
> USA
> Phone: 1/310-823-9358
> Fax: 1/310-823-8649
>
> Thank you very much for taking the time to handle this.  Please feel free
to
> contact me if you have any questions or if I can be of any assistance.
>
> Best regards,
> Dan Halloran
> Chief Registrar Liaison
> ICANN
>
> ******************************************************
>
> ICANN
> Registrar Accreditation Dept.
> 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
> Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA
> Fax: 1/310-823-8649
>
> Re:  Approval of Variable Accreditation Fee for 2001-2002
>
> To ICANN:
>
> Under Subsection 3.9.2 of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement,
> Register.com, Inc. hereby expressly approves, for the ICANN fiscal year
> beginning on 1 July 2001 and ending on 30 June 2002, a variable registrar
> accreditation fee calculated by summing fees computed for each TLD in
which
> registrars sponsor registrations.  The fee for each such TLD shall be
> computed by the following steps:
>
> a. determining, for each calendar quarter, the variable registry-level fee
> contemplated for the TLD according to Appendix A of ICANN's budget for the
> 2001-2002 fiscal year
> <http://www.icann.org/financials/proposed-budget-14may01.htm#AppendixA>
> (this is the TLD's total contribution less its fixed contribution); and
>
> b. assigning a share of that quarterly fee to each registrar sponsoring
> names within the TLD at the beginning of each calendar quarter
> proportionately to the number of names sponsored by that registrar.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
>
>
> Register.com, Inc.
>
>
>
>
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