[governance] Re: ICANN Accredits First Registrar in Senegal

[Milton Mueller]

>>> bortzmeyer at internatif.org 05/15/07 5:11 PM >>>
>It is questionable to use a gTLD, which mean most of the money will go
>to the USA, instead of a local TLD.

This is a questionable assertion. 

An ICANN-accredited registrar can register domains in any gTLD;
hopefully there will be new ones, including IDNs.  Afilias (.info,
.mobi) is incorporated in Ireland but the backers are transnational. And
a competent, up-to-speed registrar can also sell registrations in any
other ccTLD and perhaps develop the competencies requyired to operate a
TLD of their own.

Depending on the retail price, registrars can be retaining more of the
money than registries. Including from ancillary business like hosting. 

The idea, my friend, is not to "keep the money in Africa" (a vestige of
the kind of economic nationalism that has stagnated so many African
economies) but to offer African Internet users _value_, isn't it? 

The internet economy is based on a global division of labor and is not
well-guided by autarchic concepts. 


(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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