[governance] Re: ICANN Accredits First Registrar in Senegal

[Ken Lohento]

Nyangkwe

Apart from what you can read here on that issue, to write your article 
read discussions on this issue here

http://lists.reseauafricanet.org/index.html/arc/africa_net/2007-05/mail1.html

(read messages with the subject : "Re: ICANN Accredits First Registrar 
in Senegal")

Best

KL


Nyangkwe Agien Aaron a écrit :
> Mawaki and stephane
>
> can you pople be very down to earth? You being too technical in your
> pronouncements. I want to write an article for the local audience on
> this achievement by our friend in Senegal.
> What does the whole process entails, who is gaining what for which 
> outcome?.
> On a deeper note whic is the other African country to have that process
> and why according to you is Africa trailing behind?
>
> Gentlemen, you will be credited for your input.
>
> Warmly
>
> Aaron
> On 5/15/07, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at internatif.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:54:49PM -0700,
>>  Mawaki Chango <ki_chango at yahoo.com> wrote
>>  a message of 35 lines which said:
>>
>> > that naming makes me suspect their models may vary a lot from
>> > ICANN's, I mean, how they operate in terms of separating the
>> > registry functions from the registrar business, etc.
>>
>> Sure, there are many ways to operate a TLD, especially when you do not
>> see it from Marina del Rey.
>>
>> > I assume everyone, regardless of their geographic location, should
>> > be eligible to do business in the gTLD name space, and consider 2
>> > registrars in that space for the whole Africa is really, really,
>> > really little.
>>
>> It is questionable to use a gTLD, which mean most of the money will go
>> to the USA, instead of a local TLD.
>>
>> (I know that many people in Africa choose a gTLD because several ccTLD
>> in Africa are ultra-broken or so expensive than paying US $ to
>> Verisign is better. But this may change.)
>>
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