. DCA’s latest Memorial submitted by international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP – which represents DCA in the DCA vs. ICANN IRP – indicates that appear to be an anomaly on ZACR’s .africa endorsement section amongst others. . It states that: “The Board itself undertook to promote the AUC’s attempts to secure .AFRICA; …
By Yohannes Tadesse CIO East Africa In my last piece Quid Pro Quo: Secrets of ICANN’s Africa Strategy with AUC, I sought answers to the secret dealers that have characterized the African dream registry for “.africa,” The domain that was ranked possibly among the most promising new gTLDs with an advantage of being established in …
If ICANN indeed is not giving lip service to its accountability process, then it should respect the outcome of its own Independent Review Process (IRP) During the ICANN 50 Press Conference in London the ICANN president was fielding questions from Journalists and .africa came in discussion as the string that has been mentioned quite severally …
A dispute over the award of the management of .africa delays its launch The launch of the .africa generic top-level domain (gTLD), sponsored by the African Union, will have to wait until the resolution of a legal dispute over how the management of the domain was awarded. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers …
A Sad Day for the African Internet Community Its emerging that even though the .Africa “Signing Ceremony held at ICANN 49 on 26 March 2014 was widely publicized and even rarely reported on ICANN’s website, there has been silence on the reception making it hard to understand the uptake of the domains. This is …
As 2013 draws to a close it is worth looking back at where we have been and consider what 2014 will bring. As usual for DCA, it has been a year of intense activity to ensure that our promise to Africa stands – that “we shall deliver .africa registry to the continent, sooner than expected”. DCA …
Includes the African Batch! On 22 August 2013, the ICANN Board approved the FY14 Operating Plan and Budget. The document describes the planned core operations and project activities, aligned with the required funding, for the 2014 fiscal year. These funded project activities are based on ICANN’s strategic priorities as documented in the adopted three year …
On Monday July 1, Barrack Otieno introduced a discussion topic on Kictanet titled “dot Africa Reserve Name Policy Discussions (Introduction)” which tended to give the impression that the “.Africa” (DotAfrica) gTLD had already been delegated by ICANN to South Africa’s UniForum. Soon after Barrack’s post, listers started seeking enquiries, with Michael Bullut asking for …
. A report tying the recent ICANN New gTLD Committee Board decision on new gTLD’s that were given a consensus objection by GAC in a report released in Beijing during the ICANN 46th meeting. . The said board members have been linked to a previous tussle that accused them of conflict of interest. The report …
“If ICANN were to delegate the gTLD to DCA despite the AUC’s endorsement of UniForum, it is likely that the AUC would lose faith in ICANN and its structures.” “Such conspiracies that are being contrived and hatched by the opponents of DCA Trust with the active connivance of DomainIncite will fail.” The statement …