In a developing story, the DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA) has won Round One in its case against ICANN for the “.africa” domain. The launch of the .africa TLD by the ZACR has therefore been delayed due to the ongoing Independent Review Process between ICANN and DotConnectAfrica (DCA) The win stems from the fact that DCA received …
DotConnectAfrica has received a GAC consensus advice on .africa through the ICANN GAC. The GAC early warnings which lead to a GAC advice has already been criticized for corruption and nepotism. This current one was also marred with irregularities and inconsistencies that have made GAC lose its credibility in the eyes of many internet governance participants and observers. DotConnectAfrica has survived all objections so far …
A flurry of response exchanges were featured in last week between the Domain on industry columnist Kevin Murphy of DomainIncite and DotConnectAfrica (DCA), one of gTLD applicants for .africa. DCA sent two rejoinders in 24 hours responding to his comments and to provide detailed answers with an aim to clarify what it has termed …
“It is likely that this complaint has led to increased awareness of the possibilities of conflict of interest, which the Board will carefully consider in terms of the existing policy about conflict, when the issue arises. I consider this should continue to be a matter for consideration in gTLD decision making by the Board.” Wrote …
“It is likely that this complaint has led to increased awareness of the possibilities of conflict of interest, which the Board will carefully consider in terms of the existing policy about conflict, when the issue arises. I consider this should continue to be a matter for consideration in gTLD decision making by the Board.” Wrote …
“It is likely that this complaint has led to increased awareness of the possibilities of conflict of interest, which the Board will carefully consider in terms of the existing policy about conflict, when the issue arises. I consider this should continue to be a matter for consideration in gTLD decision making by the Board.” Wrote …
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 …
In a letter to the Chief Executive Officer of ICANN, Mr. Fadi Chehadé, the ICANN Board Chair Mr. Crocker and a copy to the various individuals presiding over New gTLD matters including: Cherine Chalaby, Chair, New gTLD Program Committee Heather Dryden, Chair, Government Advisory Committee Kurt Pritz, SVP Stakeholder Relations and Acting Director of New gTLD Program Suzanne Sene, …
DomainingAfrica.com : The ICANN Application comments period has just closed. The public comment form an integral part of the application process, in the ICANN guide book …As an interested follower of the .africa domain, I have had an opportunity to look into the various comments that have been submitted for both the .africa applicants. …