SecurityRatty: ICANN Moving On with Elimination of Domain Tasting

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ICANN Moving On with Elimination of Domain Tasting

2008-02-05 06:24:07 by Editor in Cheap Hack

ICANN has posted its initial operating plan and budget framework for Fiscal Year 2009. From the document (p.14):

Current assumptions in the revenue model are:
no refund of ICANN fees for registrations (in effect, elimination of the add-grace period)
registrar fees at the FY08 level of $0.20 per transaction year
a reduction in the number of ICANN accredited registrars
an increase in ccTLD contributions

Good, just as the Board of Directors had proposed, they are moving through the budget process to eliminate the AGP, or Add-Grace Period. This will make tasting a much more expensive speculation. With the refunds being eliminated they can expect revenues to increase, so increasing the fee would have been greedy. Good thing it's staying the same. And even though they are planning to create new gTLDs, they are expecting the number of registrars to decline? Not sure of the answer on that one.