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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Moved on from .africa? Interesting news.  I did catch most of the discussions on the list archives by the way, I must have missed this bulletin.

Thank you for the information 

--srs (iPad)

On 22-Jan-2013, at 0:24, Gideon <gideonrop at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> Here is also another interesting one...
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>  http://www.bna.com/race-toward-new-b17179871911/?goback=.gde_110405_member_206339583#skipbanner
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> Gideon Rop
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> DotConnectAfrica
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> 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.
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>> --srs (iPad)
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>> On 21-Jan-2013, at 17:43, Gideon <gideonrop at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Interesting article,
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>>> Early Warnings….of Corruption in ICANN’s GAC
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>>> New top level domain (TLD) applications 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.
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>>> http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/01/11/early-warnings-of-corruption-in-icann/
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>>> Gideon Rop,
>>> DotConnectAfrica
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