Fwd: Re: [wg-review] Proposal for ICANN Board electors and funding.

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic asked me to forward the following message as he sent it to me twice:

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From: "Chris McElroy" <watch-dog@inreach.com>
To: <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [wg-review] Proposal for ICANN Board electors and funding.
Date: 1/2/01 12:14:08 PM

As one member of this list stated, he owns over 300 domain names. How much
has he got invested? Add the figures. Where does everyone think the
Registrars GET the money they contribute? Simple math. Just that one member
has contributed significantly more than 10-25 dollars to the process and
continues to do so through renewals even with Registrars being allowed to
pull every dirty trick in the business. Hoarding Expired Domain Names to
sell them for more than mere Registration, using fronts to register names
then adding an additional charge to move the name to another registrar which
is still owned by the same registrar, and signing deals with companies like
SnapNames to give them first shot at expired names before the general public
in return for a share of the profits SnapNames makes on the expired names.
If anyone should pay more of the associated fees, look to the Registrars to
provide it especially when they are allowed to be as unethical as they want
to be with no reprimands forthcoming from ICANN. They ignore the problem as
a way to endorse it..

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sotiropoulos" <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>
To: <wg-review@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 10:59 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: [wg-review] Proposal for ICANN Board electors and funding.


> 1/2/01 8:42:51 AM, "Peter de Blanc" <pdeblanc@usvi.net> wrote:
>
> >At-Large could charge "dues" of, say $ 10 to $ 25 per year.
> >Other groups could get commercial donors or sponsorships, with the
> >sponsor(s) getting a logo and credit  on that group's web page.
> >
> >Representation with taxation, Everybody pays to play.
>
>
> Mr. deBlanc,
>
> As has already been pointed out by myself and others, Name Holders ARE the
ones providing the FUNDS!  Name Holders are the ones buying
> DOMAINS!  I think that constituency has already paid its fair share.  What
about WIPO and certain others?
>
> I believe the issue of representation is a little more serious than a game
people "play".
>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>           Hermes Network, Inc.
>
>
>
>
>




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