[Chapter-delegates] Arithmetic, orJoin our call to stop the sale of .org

[John Levine]

In article <CADZv+uZKDrK8QG2K-ci_kjw3mOb4D7SFYWo1qjB87w1Ttd1xEA at mail.gmail.com> you write:
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>Purely back-of-napkin calculation. Easy to verify - ALL the businesses I'm
>involved in make more than 10%, but inflation here is 6%. I don't know
>anything about .ORG size and distribution, but I can't imagine that the
>globally inflation would be much lower. I would love to know how much of it
>is "parked"/"domainer"/cybersquatting.

Globally, inflation is much lower than that.  PIR and the investors
are in the US, where this year's annual inflation rate is 1.8%.  My
guess is that the majority of .org regsistrants are in North America
and Europe, where inflation is about 1%, but it is of course hard to
tell.

For parked domains, when I looked for .org name servers with PARK in the name
I found over 200,000 domains so I would guess that the total parked is in
the 500K range, maybe more.  No wonder the domain speculators fired up that
astroturf campaign about the price caps.

R's,
John