Re: Specific Questions

[Steve Peterson <stevep@ry.com>]

>1. Application Fee - How Much and why? Refundable if not selected for
>  any reason?

Refundable, cash or letter of credit, equal to estimate of 1/n of (setup
and first year operating costs for registry) where n is the number if
registrars.

>
>2. Fee for credit check - Fair?

Yes, no more than actual costs of D&B plus a couple hours for trade
reference checks.

>
>3. Registration procedure. n-day wait, or n-day publishing or both?
>  Define n (valid answers are 0 to 365 for n)

Long enough that the courts treat it as advance notice of the domain, but
no longer.

>
>4. Lottery or Objective Criteria?

No more than 10 registrars initially;  combine lottery with baseline
criteria.  One of the baseline criteria is that it will take an investment
of at least $50K/year to operate a registrar.

>
>5. gTLDs selected by IAHC, CORE, or the registries (or some combination
>  thereof?)

CORE

>
>6. Shared only, exclusive only, shared on choice of registry, or
>  shared when feasable, exclusive until then?

All shared.
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Steve Peterson                                    Reality Interactive, Inc.
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