In an interesting follow up response to last week’s BBC Click Program discussion on .Africa dispute, the head of the ICANN’s Global Domains Division Akram Atallah tried to clarify the issue of the wrongdoing and alleged coverup make by ICANN on the .africa DCA VS ICANN IRP case, which DCA prevailed in. Most interestingly, he …
dubious After ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) issued “consensus advice” objecting to DCA Trust’s application, ICANN’s Board summarily awarded the .AFRICA domain to the African Union Commission, DCA Trust’s competitor. DotConnectAfrica in turn refused to back down and accept the Boards recommendation that it should withdraw its application and instead invoked the last accountability mechanism …
Africans represented by African Union Commission at ICANN has come again to show disregard to the importance of following set structures. The issue at the center of the .Africa domain debate is not so much in the timing of the accountability procedures applied, but time and again it has been shown to be much on …
A public discussion of the outcome of the first ICANN IRP ruling of the new gTLD process has found its way to the Cross-Community Working Group as one of the current topics on Enhancing ICANN Accountability. Whereas the entire ICANN community appears to work towards ways to improve the ICANN accountability mechanism some members from …
“ Equally, this exclusion treatment given to DCA by ICANN was understood by many Africans, as well as the closely observing global ICANN community, as an attempt to endear a selection process of who should be representing Africa, due to the high stakes over the .africa gTLD – a sort of .africa Magna Carta, if …
. 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; …
The DCA Vs ICANN IRP has taken a new turn. According to the newly published documents that include Ms. Sophia Bekele’s expert testimony and the Second Memorial on the Merits by DCA’s legal representatives, new explosive details have been brought to the fore on how the .Africa new gTLD application was processed. Bekele has detailed …
During the just ended ICANN 50 meeting in London, several domain issues came to the fore. Hot in the heels of a disappointed .Wine opposers about how ICANN managed the decisions of the domain with the EU and specifically France showing the deep disappointment with ICANN. The .africa delay was also part of the GAC …
Sourced from Internet Law Center Cyber Report ilccyberreport According to a report in All Africa, the African Union barred African internet entrepreneur Sophia Bekele, founder of the DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA), from speaking at the ITU’s “Girls in ICT” day event held at the AU headquarters. The reason? Bekele’s DCA has also applied for the .africa gTLD and is …
It appears the Africa Union Commission’s epic fight with the .africa contestant DotConnectAfrica is not yet over, according to a recent report: AUC blocks Sophia Bekele from ITU event over DotAfrica dispute . Sophia Bekele the DCA Executive Director had been invited to give a Key Note speech at the annual Girl’s ICT day on …