[governance] DOT EDU EXTENSION

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

Kwasi, you  can also go for university.ac.countryname depending on the
location of your country like ac.uk for www.oxford.ac.uk (United Kingdom),
 or.ac.ke like uonbi.ac.ke *(*Kenya)

One question Internet Evangelists have been asking and Roland has raised it
is why US reserved .edu and .mil exclusively for themselves. The opening up
of the root to allow new GTLDs should answer that question. We now have the
chance to localise our TLD experiences. For example, in large parts of East
Africa, we speak Swahili which is the official lingua franca. It is
therefore logical that for our universities, we should register a TLD
.chuo. Chuo is the Swahili name for University. Why would we want .edu
while we can register .chuo?

So instead of .mil, our region would go for .jeshi (Swahili for Army)


Regards
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Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
twitter.com/lordmwesh



On 20 March 2014 16:26, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Kwasi,
>
> As you would have seen from the flurry of emails following your post, .edu
> is reserved for American accredited educational institutions. All other
> countries, usually have something like:-
>
> InsertName.edu.au or InsertName.edu.ccTLD
>
> For end users, the shorter the domain the easier it is to remember, hence
> preference for .edu
> However, there are also merits in having a .edu.ccTLD or .edu.africa for
> instance as it helps users distinguish location.
>
> Just as .gov is reserved for the US and its territories whilst other
> countries have .gov.fj or .gov.ccTLD. Noting that some countries use
> .gouv.ccTLD
>
> Some of these things developed because of precedent and as a consequence
> of innovation in the TLD space starting in the US etc.
>
> Best Regards,
> Sala
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Katim S. Touray <kstouray at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Kwasi,
>>
>> Here you go: https://net.educause.edu/edudomain/
>>
>> Katim
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Kwasi Boakye-Akyeampong <
>> kboakye at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello folks,
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate any advice and/ assistance.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to register a domain name with a .edu extension but it
>>> appears that .edu extensions are not available.
>>>
>>> Could someone advise how I could get a domain name with a .edu extension
>>> registered?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Kwasi
>>>
>>> --
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>>> Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. *--
>>> *Frank Tibolt*
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