Re: [registrars] ICANN funding & registrars

[edyson@edventure.com (Esther Dyson)]

Thank you thank you!!!  Two thank yous for two dollars!  

We appreciate the support, and we will do our best to earn it!

Esther

At 10:41 AM 23/07/99 +0200, Amadeu Abril i Abril wrote:
>Esther and fellow registrars,
>
>Nominalia will keep providing the $1 per domain/year in a voluntary basis
>despite the recent US Department of Commerce's position. Even if we could
>devise other sources of funding for the future, we are committed to support
>ICANN's critical work in the meantime.
>
>In this regard,we have already instructed CORE, the Testbed registrar through
>which we are regsitering .com, .org & .net domains since July 9, to send to
>ICANN $2 per domain already registered, and will keep doing so until such time
>as a complete and workable alternative financial structure will be in place.
>
>Best regards
>
>Amadeu Abril i Abril
>Legal & Policy Advisor
>Nominalia Internet S.L.			http://www.nominalia.com
>ICANN Accredited Registrar
>CORE Member #01					http://www.corenic.org
>
>
>


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