[HN Gopher] ICANN fee price hike by 11% [pdf]
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       ICANN fee price hike by 11% [pdf]
        
       Author : NoahZuniga
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2025-06-05 17:54 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | lysace wrote:
       | Perhaps related to activities like
       | https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-announc...
       | 
       | With grants to projects like:
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       | "Enhancing Digital Inclusivity and Universal Acceptance through
       | Educational Outreach"
       | 
       | "Empowering Maori in Internet Governance and DNS Management: A
       | Culturally Tailored Educational Programme for Enhancing Equitable
       | & Indigenous Participation in Aotearoa New Zealand's Digital
       | Landscape"
       | 
       | "Carbon.txt: Use DNS to Discover Sustainability and Energy Data
       | and Reduce the Internet's Emissions"
       | 
       | (To be fair though, most of the listed projects seem solid at a
       | cursory glance.)
        
         | Arnt wrote:
         | Those projects are funded from auctions around 2012 and fund
         | management since, which is a fund separate from ICANN's own
         | accounting. Some people really, really wanted .blog or
         | whatever, and the proceeds of the resulting auctions went into
         | a fund that was to be spent on... I'm not well informed, but
         | the money for at least one of those projects came from that
         | fund. The others may too.
         | https://domainincite.com/20440-wordpress-reveals-it-bought-b...
         | Domain Incite also has other articles covering this subject
         | area, some with profanity, all well-informed.
         | 
         | These price hikes have a simple reason: ICANN's per-year per-
         | domain fee was not adjusted by inflation and most of the
         | expenses do grow with inflation. No matter how well or badly
         | ICANN spends its money, at some point a flat price was going to
         | run into inflation-bound expenses and lose.
         | 
         | Feel free to criticise the Maori project, or ICANN's arguably
         | wasteful meetings, or whatever you want, but please don't
         | confuse the money in that fund with the budget for ICANN's
         | operations.
        
           | lysace wrote:
           | Thanks for the correction. I see now that this is also
           | covered here: https://www.icann.org/grant-program-en/#faqs
        
       | Aeolun wrote:
       | So they multiply that 3.8M by the number of registrars active,
       | and then divide the total amount based on what they feel is fair
       | for all registrars?
        
       | Sohcahtoa82 wrote:
       | Don't bother asking why they're raising the prices. They'll just
       | say "Because ICANN".
        
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