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

[Fahd A. Batayneh]

>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.

Fahd
On Nov 8, 2012 11:36 AM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:

> Success in terms of numbers? It depends on how much their marketing skills
> match their skills in high decibel politicking. Convincing companies with
> .eg, .ng, .za etc domains to get themselves .africa in addition / as a
> substitute may or may not be easy.  They could certainly learn from .asia's
> experience I'd say.
>
> Fahd A. Batayneh [08/11/12 09:17 +0200]:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
>> <suresh at hserus.net>wrote:
>>
>>  (snip)
>>>
>>>
>>
>>  Even the TLD by itself has little or no relevance in the larger scheme of
>>> things, any more than say .museum has for museums the world over, or its
>>> geographic predecessor .asia has had for Asia (moderately, but not too
>>> popular)
>>>
>>>
>> I agree. In fact, around 1% of the domain names registered at a global
>> level originate from Africa (or at least have African addresses tied to
>> them).
>>
>> So this all boils down to how the folks at .africa define the success of
>> the TLD in terms of numbers.
>>
>> Fahd
>>
>
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