[governance] Good Bye .DOTAFRICA: ICANN Approves the Change Request Made by DotConnectAfrica Trust for Its .Africa

[Gideon]

Our endorsement is compliant with ICANN requirements and no letter has been
written for DCA explicitly withdrawing AU support.  We are also confident
that we are in compliance with the rest of ICANN process, unlike our
competition!

Gideon Rop.


On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net>wrote:

> Let us see, let us see. You still need an AU endorsement and 60% of the
> countries in africa, not a letter of support which has been explicitly
> withdrawn. And then you still need to go through the rest of the process.
>
> Have fun.
>
> Gideon [07/11/12 09:15 +0300]:
>
>  So what, this is just one person's opinion and means nothing, in fact
>> focuses only on endorsement issues and not the merit of the .africa
>> application.  However DCA's announcement is a significant update, as the
>> industry needs to be informed, including you and some people who made
>> comments on .dotafrica on this forum. as well as the competition which
>> falsely claimed "ICANN says there is only one .africa".
>>
>>
>>
>> Good day
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net
>> >wrote:
>>
>>  Very well put. Thanks for sharing.
>>>
>>> --srs (htc one x)
>>>
>>>
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>>> Subject: [governance] Good Bye .DOTAFRICA: ICANN Approves the Change
>>> Request Made by DotConnectAfrica Trust for Its .Africa
>>> Date: Tue, Nov 6, 2012 7:24 PM
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>>> http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/**11/03/top-level-domain-africa-**
>>> becomes-object-of-bitter-**fight/<http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/11/03/top-level-domain-africa-becomes-object-of-bitter-fight/>
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>>> From: governance-request at lists.**igcaucus.org<governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org>[mailto:
>>> governance-request at lists.**igcaucus.org<governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org>]
>>> On Behalf Of Suresh Ramasubramanian
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 8:34 AM
>>> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Gideon
>>> Cc: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>>> Subject: Re: [governance] Good Bye .DOTAFRICA: ICANN Approves the Change
>>> Request Made by DotConnectAfrica Trust for Its .Africa
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> so,,,?  does this suddenly award you the .africa TLD or something?
>>>
>>> --srs (iPad)
>>>
>>>
>>> On 06-Nov-2012, at 12:10, Gideon <gideonrop at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Good Bye .DOTAFRICA:  ICANN Approves the Change Request Made by
>>> DotConnectAfrica Trust for Its .Africa
>>>
>>>
>>> http://archive.**constantcontact.com/fs123/**1102516344150/archive/**
>>> 1111325860695.html<http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs123/1102516344150/archive/1111325860695.html>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Gideon Rop
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