RE: [registrars] Examples of tiering

["Richard Forman" <rforman@register.com>]

The thought that I presented was to mimic proportionality without explicitly
creating a straight line variable relationship.  Therefore,
	X<Y and A<B<C

Hopefully someone in the group will start to help us define just what
X,Y,A,B and C should be and/or present other alternatives.

Thank you,

Richard D. Forman
President & CEO
Register.com, Inc.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
> Behalf Of Robert F. Connelly
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 6:35 PM
> To: rforman@register.com
> Cc: registrars@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [registrars] Examples of tiering
>
>
> At 18:16 25-09-1999 -0400, Richard Forman wrote:
>
> >Volume of registrations per quarter (3 months)          Fee paid to ICANN
> >0 to X registrations
> $A (fixed,
> >not variable)
> >X-1 to Y registrations
> $B (fixed,
> >not variable)
> >above Y registrations
> $C (fixed,
> >not variable)
>
> Dear Richard:
>
> It's 07:20 JST, Sunday morning.  Assuming you're on the East
> Coast, you're
> doing a lot of thinking for a Saturday evening;-)
>
> Each time I answer a piece of mail, here's another from you.  I'm glad
> someone is thinking about this important funding matter.
>
> Would you think A<B<C or A>B>C?  How about:
> 1<=A<B<C<=2
> n<=A<B<C<=m
> n>=A>B>C=>m
>
> We had a similar set of questions in CORE early on.  The question was:
>
> 100% Fixed monthly fee
> 50% fixed monthly fee+50% charge per registration
> 100% charge per registration
>
> The arguments were (from one extreme to the other) 1. "you can buy a
> million minutes of 800 time" for a small fee per minute 2. we need to
> preserve regional diversity and the smaller registrars in countries with
> less developed Internet usage.
>
> The result was overwhelmingly in favor of a charge per registration, no
> fixed monthly fee.  I think only three members voted for 100% funding by
> fixed monthly fee.
>
> Regards, BobC
>
>
>
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>