[governance] Interesting story of the never ending ICANN Conflict of Interest. This time on .africa?

[George Sadowsky]

Suresh,

Speaking personally, I agree completely with your assessment of this situation  I wish that there were more post of this type in this list, directly assessing such issues without the various biases that appear to affect so many of the contributors.

George  


On Oct 24, 2012, at 5:10 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> Replying to an email of Riaz Tayob's - posted in the archives -
> 
> As far as I can see dotconnectafrica shot themselves in their own foot by first
> bidding for the wrong TLD, and then launching an extremely vitriolic attack
> campaign against anybody at all they saw as opposed to their interests.
> 
> This on circleid for example was the first I heard of this group and their
> campaign, and it failed to impress me right at the start. 
> 
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/is_africa_ready_for_a_dotafrica_gtld_future/
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121008_icann_africa_strategy_a_new_approach_to_africa/
> 
> Anything at all more on this issue will have to be seen from the prism of
> dueling commercial interests, one of which has apparently lost out but is still
> aggressively claiming victory.
> 
> This article says it all -
> http://domainincite.com/9802-dotconnectafrica-disconnected-from-reality
> 
> thanks
> --srs
> 
> On 2012/10/12 04:11 PM, Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch wrote:
> 
>> the claims are vague enough to be consistent with "one more turn of the
>> extortion screw",
> 
> Whatever does this mean?
> 
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