Re: Royalty Based Fees

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Aveek,

  Here Here!  I hope other members are listening? :)

Regards,


Aveek Datta wrote:
> 
> Excerpts from internet.listserv.iahc-discuss: 26-Dec-96 Re: Royalty
> Based Fees by "Leo Smith"@ntplx.net
> > To Kent Crispin, et al:
> > Why not use  royalty based revenue to generate the funding needed to
> > support IAHC. If a registry has to pay a nickle royalty ONLY when it makes
> > a dollar, the royalty payment will never act as a barrier to entry.
> >
> > If the $20,000 fee were instead treated as an advance on royalties to cover
> > the first $400,000 in sales generated by your registry, how would you view
> > that?
> >
> 
> Personally  I thought the Postel document was much more sensible in this
> regard -- a reasonable 2k fee for entry (though I think that should be
> refundable too) and then a per name yearly fee, similar to the way the
> Internic manages things. This way free registrie sand other public
> interest registries get a chance.
> 
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