Re: [registrars] Vendors *pitching* ccTLDs to the Registrar Constituency

[Paul Westley <paul@internetters.co.uk>]

I'm not sure that Bob's recollection is totally correct. I recall 
presentations from Neustar on behalf of .CN (ccTLD) and .PRO (new gTLD - 
almost certainly paid-up to ICANN). I don't remember .TV or .CC talking to us.

However I am in agreement that as a formal ICANN constituency that the RC 
should use all opportunities to ensure we support ICANN in every way we 
can. I would certainly support a requirement that any organization wishing 
to address the RC at its' meetings should be in full support of ICANN and 
not be in default on any financial obligations to ICANN.

I don't know the status of any contributions to ICANN from the .CN 
registry. Neustar who actually addressed us will almost certainly be 
uptodate on .BIZ contributions, but .CN and .US may be different matters 
perhaps?. In the case of our home market (UK) Internetters uses every 
opportunity to encourage the .UK registry (Nominet) to take a full role, 
financial and otherwise, within ICANN.

Kind regards,

Paul Westley
Internetters

At 12:56 25/05/2003 -0400, elliot noss wrote:
>Here here. This is a great example of a place where the RC could exert 
>leverage externally to influence greater support of ICANN. I am more 
>concerned that the proposed candidates for the new excom pay attention to 
>this and could perhaps even address the general concept (support of the 
>ICANN experiment in a broad sense) in their position documents.
>
>
>On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 11:01 AM, Robert F. Connelly wrote:
>
>>Dear Colleagues:
>>
>>At the DC meeting, we listened to sales pitches by registries for .cn , 
>>.tv, .cc, and other ccTLDs during our lunch.
>>
>>At the close of the meeting, with the time I'd been saving up by not 
>>speaking 2 minutes on a whole bunch of issues, Michael permitted to pitch 
>>this final missive:
>>
>>Registers must pay their RC dues to vote.
>>
>>ICANN dues throw a financial burden upon gTLD registrars.
>>
>>Therefore, ccTLDs that address the RC should pay all past "dues" or 
>>"donations".
>>
>>I suspect that the combined ccTLDs discussed at today's lunch owe money 
>>to ICANN well in excess of the $2,500 they paid to have our ear during lunch;-(
>>
>>close quote:
>>
>>I hope our Excom will keep this thought in mind as other vendors seek our 
>>ear (and pocket book.).
>>
>>Regards, BobC
>>