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   Patrick Mevzek (pmevzek@framapiaf.org)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 00:29:51 JST Patrick Mevzek

   ICANN: "I'm happy to report that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has set the expected evaluation fee for the next round of new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applications. The expected fee will be USD $227,000."

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 00:30:46 JST feld

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     @pmevzek is it still ~$15,000 quarterly to service them?
     
     And does this mean we can blame ICANN for causing our domain prices to keep increasing? I just got an email that all the new TLDs are cranking up in price again
     
     like WTF is ICANN even doing with this money???????
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     Patrick Mevzek (pmevzek@framapiaf.org)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 04:46:05 JST Patrick Mevzek

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     @feld Their PR: https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-sets-expected-evaluation-fee-for-new-gtld-applications-in-the-next-round-25-09-2024-en#main ; Fee is said to be "just" to cover the cost to be revenue-neutral (seems in domain names there are no economy at scale… as more gTLDs are expected at this round than previous). As for previous money (gTLDs auctions, etc.) not used a decade after, there is a grant program to see how to dispose of $217 millions :-) https://domainincite.com/29692-icann-opens-217-million-grant-program

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 04:46:14 JST feld

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     @pmevzek that is a LOT of money sitting around that could be funding open source development...
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 05:01:40 JST feld

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     @pmevzek I'd like to see us evolve above the need of ICANN but we're talking about fracturing the internet and creating a whole new "web" with a completely different namespace and authority which is not gonna gain traction quickly
     
     but it could be a huge benefit to people who want to self-host services and break free from the current corporatized web that's trying to strangle to death any signs of innovation
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     Patrick Mevzek (pmevzek@framapiaf.org)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 05:01:41 JST Patrick Mevzek

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     @feld ICANN has lots of constituencies/stakeholders (registries, registrars, LEA, IP, etc.) but barely registrants and even less software developers or open source ones. Aka: that specific funding will never happen.

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     Patrick Mevzek (pmevzek@framapiaf.org)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 06:48:54 JST Patrick Mevzek

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     @feld "And does this mean we can blame ICANN for causing our domain prices to keep increasing?" "ICANN tax" of $0.18 in gTLD hasn't changed. And prices go up in ccTLDs as well I think (who can give $0 to ICANN), so… I don't think most registries could explain their prices go up only because of ICANN. Which doesn't mean it is necessarily a good idea for a "regulator" to manage multi hundreds millions of dollars without maybe the needed oversight.

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