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George Kirikos (http://www.kirikos.com) provides an interesting and detailed analysis (http://gordoncook.net/wp/?p=274) of the information he gleaned from ICANN's most recent and previous IRS Form 990 disclosure (http://www.icann.org/en/financials/tax/us/fy-2007-form-990.pdf).For the year ending June 30, 2006, the top five employees at ICANN earned a total of $566,292 as well as $95,499 in benefits and deferred compensation. For the year ending June 30, 2007, the top five ICANN employees earned a total of $985,568 as well as $172,377 in benefits and deferred compensation - a staggering 74% increase from the previous year.As well, the top five employees had expense accounts totaling $26,727 for the financial year ending June 30, 2006, whereas the following year they had expense accounts totalling $130,465.The President and CEO of ICANN is Paul Twomey. In this same one year period, his compensation increased from of earnings of $459,244 and benefits of $19,200 to earnings of $722,079 and benefits of $219,345.George Kirikos calls on ICANN to control their salary expenditures and justify such large increases.