Plans to Spend $60 Million of Your Money This Year — How ICANN

Fresh TLDs are top budget item — but also the only line item to decrease.

ICANN If you’re reading this blog, you are probably one of the many people that funds ICANN’s operations. You pay the registrar, which in turn pays ICANN and the registry. The registry also pays ICANN. In short, without domain registrants, ICANN has very little money.

So how ICANN spends its money ought to be notable to you. The non-profit has released its draft proposed 2011 financial year budget for July 2010 to June 2011 and is right now accepting comments.

The 2011 budget includes a record $60 million in operating expenses. Here’s a breakdown of the budget items over $5 million:

1. Fresh TLDs and IDNs – $8.048 million (the only budget item to go down from 2010 to 2011, $6.683 is for fresh TLDs and the rest is for IDNs)
2. Security, Stability, and Resiliency $7.087 million
3. Global engagement and increasing international participation $6.792 million
4. Policy development support $6.421 million
6. Constituency support $6.216 million
7. IANA function and technology operations improvements $5.804 million
8. Core meeting logistics $5.255 million

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