[governance] Early Warnings….of Corruption in ICANN’s GAC

[Gideon]

Is there anywhere I said this related to .africa?  It is not always the
case that I post on .africa. Maybe you missed my posts while you were
exiled; we have moved on from .africa a while back.


Here is also another interesting one...


http://www.bna.com/race-toward-new-b17179871911/?goback=.gde_110405_member_206339583#skipbanner


Gideon Rop

DotConnectAfrica



On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net>wrote:

> Well, I am not quite sure the IGP blog author intended to use .africa as
> an example in his article, but you never know.  Milton or someone from IGP
> might want to comment.
>
> --srs (iPad)
>
> On 21-Jan-2013, at 17:43, Gideon <gideonrop at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting article,
>
>
> Early Warnings….of Corruption in ICANN’s GAC
>
> New top level domain (TLD) applications <http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/>raise high financial stakes for the applicants. Those seeking new TLDs will
> have invested at least half a million dollars to prepare and submit their
> proposal, and many of the companies involved have raised millions more in
> backing from investors or venture capital firms. In aggregate, applicants
> plunked down about $250 million in application fees alone.
>
>
> http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/01/11/early-warnings-of-corruption-in-icann/
>
>
>
> <http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/01/11/early-warnings-of-corruption-in-icann/>
>
> Gideon Rop,
> DotConnectAfrica
>
>
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