For those of you who have been following the African gTLD journey, must really feel for Africa and indeed ICANN especially at this time. The gTLD is at the center of a bitter war between two applicants who both claim a stake in it and while the real stake is yet to be achieved given …
As it was reported earlier by Mideast Time, a large number of Arab citizens were not happy with the formal application of Persian Gulf domain extension. Now the governments of four Arab states including Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and UAE have sent their official objection letter to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and …
The Government Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN issued 242 early warnings to new gTLD applicants tonight involving 145 strings. After a quick review, The government of Australia seems to have issued the most early warnings with Germany and India following. Read More
Mr. Tarek Kamel is an Egyptian expert in global Internet governance issues. He is considered the father of the Internet in Egypt. His recent posting came as a big break when he was appointed in August 2012 to serve as a Senior Advisor to its President of ICANN. Prior to joining ICANN, Tarek was a board …
19 November 2012: ICANN has announced the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for Sudan. With this announcement, a total of 31 countries/territories requests have successfully passed through the String Evaluation. Of these, 23 countries/territories (represented by 33 IDN ccTLDs) are delegated in the DNS root zone; with the remainder either …
Recently DotConnectAfrica announced in their regular Press releases that ICANN had finally changed their application that had come as .dotAfrica to DotAfrica. This particular errors are not uncommon but in this particular case it would have come out as the most expensive 185, 000 USD error. These changes are among 29 other changes that …
In my last story on this subject, titled the Curious and Lingering Case of DotAfrica!, I wrote on whose fault is it and attempted to give a fair analysis of the situation. I am not sure now how much damage the delay has costed DotconnectAfrica regarding getting support from Governments. If DCA did get support during this …
PUBLIC FORUM COMMENT SUBMITTED BY DCA TRUST: This is a complete unabridged version of the document. Shorter version was read out at the Public Forum Meeting due to constraint of time. General Comment on the ICANN Multi-Stakeholder Model & DCA’s Contribution to the ICANN Africa Strategy Presented by: Ms. Sophia Bekele, Executive Director, …
DCA Trust used the opportunity afforded by the presence of the entire ICANN Global Community gathered at Toronto to also unveil the IBCA – Internet Business Council for Africa – initiative that it has independently developed as a component of the ICANN Africa Strategy. Read More
ICANN 45 hits the third day in Toronto Canada, the meeting that has been attended by delegates all over the world are set to discss among other issues, the new gTLD’s, governance and Internet security. Read More