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

[Bethel Terefe]

that is good news Ethiopia's Ministry of Communication and information
technology has been working with AU on this issue i am glad its adopted


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:

> Today, the national governments that constitute ICANN’s Governmental
> Advisory Committee (GAC) for the first time publicly voiced their concerns
> over specific new Top-Level Domain (TLD) applications in the form of Early
> Warnings.
>
> More than 240 individual GAC Early Warnings were issued in relation to 200
> new TLD applications which account for 162 unique strings.
>
> DotConnectAfrica’s application for .africa received 17 Early Warnings.
> UniForum SA’s application for .africa received no Early Warnings.
>
>
> http://www.ariservices.com/blog/first-insights-from-the-gac-early-warnings-on-new-top-level-domains/
>
> On 9 November 2012 02:43, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>wrote:
>
>> Volumes are definitely key. Especially to offset the rather high startup
>> costs of a new tld
>>
>> --srs (iPad)
>>
>> On 09-Nov-2012, at 1:31, "Fahd A. Batayneh" <fahd.batayneh at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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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