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April 15th, 2000.
Elisabeth Porteneuve, AFNIC
The version 1 00weightcctld1.html of my contribution to the ICANN funding model for the ccTLD Constituency needed corrections:
With the above, the total number of ccTLDs members to regional associations is 142, and its weight in number of hosts as provided by Network Wizards periodical statistics (currently January 2000) is of 96.7 %.
The indication for regional contributions are:
APTLD 36 25,79%
CENTR 27 47,48%
LACTLD 19 5,48%
NATLD 8 17,07%
AFTLD 52 0,89%
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5 Associations 142 96,70%
With the requested ICANN budget of $US 1,500,000 and DNSO budget of $US 13,643 it gives the following indications:
ICANN budget = ccTLDs share is $US 1.5 M
DNSO budget = ccTLDs share is $US 13,643
APTLD 36 400026 ICANN budget 3638 DNSO budget
CENTR 27 736447 ICANN budget 6698 DNSO budget
LACTLD 19 84961 ICANN budget 773 DNSO budget
NATLD 8 264716 ICANN budget 2408 DNSO budget
AFTLD 52 13851 ICANN budget 126 DNSO budget
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5 Associations 142 1500000 ICANN budget 13643 DNSO budget
However, it may happen that not all regional associations wish collect money or distribute fees among themselves, and an overall view should also be available.
The version 2 00weightcctld2.html gives a mathematical indication of fair contribution for each and every ccTLD based in its its weight in number of hosts related to domain names.
Based on this indication I propose a scheme for collecting fees to all the three organizations simultaneusly: ICANN, DNSO and ccTLD Constituency. Whereas the budget of ICANN is very important, the budget necessary to an international secretariat is much more affordable and recent known exemples indicate that $US 300,000 is a minimum.
It leads to:
ccTLD Secretariat -- $US 300000 (minimal cost) ICANN -- $US 1,500000 (35% of overall budget from ccTLDs) DNSO -- $US 43000 (1/7 of minimal cost $US 300000) ---------------------------------- ccTLD+ICANN+DNSO -- $US 1,843000 contingency 10% -- $US 184000 ---------------------------------- Total -- $US 2,027000
The distribution of ccTLDs is as follows:
124 ccTLDs with less than 500 hosts 12170 hosts in this group, i.e. 0%
37 500 < X < 2000 36110 0%
22 2K < X < 10K 108970 1%
19 10K < X < 50K 446870 2%
6 50K < X < 100K 450100 2%
8 100K < X < 200K 1122700 5%
11 200K < X < 500K 3676010 18%
6 500K < X < 1M 4082050 20%
5 1M < X < 2M 8240090 40%
1 more than 2M 2636540 13%
239 Total 20811610 100%
It indicates a very strong desequilibrum, 75 % of all ccTLDs are either extremelly small ones (less than 500 hosts) or small (up to 50K hosts). Only 31 ccTLDs indicate more than 100 K of hosts corresponding to registered domain names.
Therefore the ccTLD situation is not adapted to a funding model based on level of fees, the specta being very large.
I suggest the scheme based on level of fees for very small to medium ccTLDs, and proportional fees for 23 biger ccTLD registries (to be revised on an annual basis).
With this scheme the invoicing seems reasonnable, and the distorsion between suggested level of fees and proportional constribution neglectable.
Weight in hosts Fees scheme To be collected
(A) 124 ccTLDs with less than 500 hosts $US 0 $US 0
(B) 37 500 < X < 2000 $US 100 $US 3700
(C) 22 2K < X < 10K 300 6600
(D) 19 10K < X < 50K 2000 38000
(E) 6 50K < X < 100K 7000 42000
(F) 8 100K < X < 200K 14000 112000
(G) 11 200K < X < 500K proportional 367601
(H) 6 500K < X < 1M proportional 408205
(I) 5 1M < X < 2M proportional 824009
(J) 1 more than 2M proportional 263654
239 Total 2065769
37 ccTLDs medium, large and very large:
(E) 6: .cn, .gr, .ie, .my, .pt, .tr (F) 8: .ar, .cz, .hk, .hu, .il, .pl, .sg, .za (G) 11: .at, .be, .br, .ch, .dk, .es, .kr, .mx, .no, .nz, .ru (I) 6: .fi, .fr, .it, .nl, .se, .tw (H) 5: .au, .ca, .de, .uk, .us (J) 1: .jp
37 ccTLDs distributed by regional association:
APTLD: .cn, .my, .hk, .sg, .kr, .nz, .tw, .au, .jp
CENTR: .gr, .ie, .pt, .hu, .il, .pl, .at, .be, .ch, .dk,
.es, .no, .fi, .fr, .it, .nl, .se, .de, .uk
LACTLD: .ar, .br, .mx
NATLD: .ca, .us
AFTLD: .za
not part to regional organization: .tr, .cz, .ru