Welcome to San Juan

by Patrick Jones on June 23, 2007

ICANN is hosting its 29th International Public Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. While the official start of the meeting is Monday, meetings are currently underway on a number of topics. Check the San Juan meeting website at http://sanjuan2007.icann.org/ to follow discussion, view webcasts and transcription. The ICANN blog will feature some of these topics during the week. ICANN also has a public participation website at public.icann.org.

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Elisabeth Porteneuve 06.25.07 at 11:45 am

Re: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-25jun07.htm

It is really good to have maps, congrats!

In order to improve the visibility of contributions, could you provide, besides “ccTLD financial contributions” also gTLD financial contributions by country of customers, i.e. to show the flow of money from countries to registries/registrars.

With regards to the ccTLD contributions – those are voluntary contributions related to IANA function, totally unrelated to gTLD ones.

It would be very appropriate that ICANN reminds the differences between ccTLDs and gTLDs.

1. The gTLDs registries and registrars pay tax on domains to ICANN, i.e. they collect contributions from users from various countries, and reverse that money to ICANN (and you do not show those statistics).
2. The ccTLDs are not obligated to pay tax on domains. The ccTLDs are not obligated to sign contract with ICANN (but it’s desirable they exchange letters for AF). The legitimacy of ccTLDs is anterior to ICANN, it remains within countries.

Best regards,

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