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

[John Levine]

In article <CADZv+uadoLrAwgWK-HsCguLq4kq4yhu-V6DQmJ-ePA2iQ3hArA at mail.gmail.com> you write:
>around long enough to know better.) There is mention of 10 million domains.
>That equates to ISOC receiving $4/domain.

That's in the right ballpark.  It varies somewhat from year to year.

>.org makes now?  How big do you think the investment is?  Here in the
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>An investment that would yield 2%, and pay $40m, would need to be $2bn. At
>4% it would need to be $1bn. At 8% it would need to be $500m. (Please
>correct me if I'm wrong, I am still learning about this.)

Those numbers also seem plausible, although I would expect that any
investor's calculations would be more complex as they figure out what
the earnings growth rate is under various future scenarios.  To make
it clear, I have no idea what Ethos' assumptions are.

>Do you know of anyone who will cancel or move their website, emails, and
>update their whole corporate identity, in order to save $10/year?

Nope, but there are a lot of names in .org (and every large TLD) that
are parked, or just aliases for a similar .com name or otherwise not
in active use.  I doubt they would stay if there were a large price
increase.

Ethos has said the price will increase at no more than 10%/year, the
old price cap rate.  Even if you don't believe that and the price were
to double, we seem to agree that the legit registrants will be fine.
I know people who work at PIR who are working on domain quality,
encouraging legitimate organizations and users to register and keeping
out the crooks who use domains for malware and phishing.  That's what
I hope the registrants know they're paying for.

R's,
John