<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Volumes are definitely key. Especially to offset the rather high startup costs of a new tld<br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 09-Nov-2012, at 1:31, "Fahd A. Batayneh" <<a href="mailto:fahd.batayneh@gmail.com">fahd.batayneh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p>From my discussions with a couple of TLD applicants, some have set success-numbers such as "if I manage to secure xyz,000 registrations at the cost of ab dollars per domain name, I have fulfilled my cause". That - as you said - mainly comes from good marketing.</p>
<p>Fahd</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 8, 2012 11:36 AM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net">suresh@hserus.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Success in terms of numbers? It depends on how much their marketing skills<br>
match their skills in high decibel politicking. Convincing companies with<br>
.eg, .ng, .za etc domains to get themselves .africa in addition / as a<br>
substitute may or may not be easy. They could certainly learn from .asia's<br>
experience I'd say.<br>
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Fahd A. Batayneh [08/11/12 09:17 +0200]:<br>
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On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian<br>
<<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net" target="_blank">suresh@hserus.net</a>>wrote:<br>
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Even the TLD by itself has little or no relevance in the larger scheme of<br>
things, any more than say .museum has for museums the world over, or its<br>
geographic predecessor .asia has had for Asia (moderately, but not too<br>
popular)<br>
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I agree. In fact, around 1% of the domain names registered at a global<br>
level originate from Africa (or at least have African addresses tied to<br>
them).<br>
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So this all boils down to how the folks at .africa define the success of<br>
the TLD in terms of numbers.<br>
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Fahd<br>
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