The Turnbull Government has released the findings of the review into Australia’s .au domain. The not-for-profit .au Domain Administration (auDA) oversees the operation of Australia’s .au domain, has been embroilled in leadership crisis for over two years resulting in a moderate leadership turnover. In 2017, the government opened a public cconsultation that would give a …
The African IGF is a growing initiative, but its management and consequently planning and relationship with host countries will be a tight to walk if the Africa union related bodies fail to follow the laid out protocols. Africa holds its 2nd Internet Governance Forum, but will it achieve its desired goals Who should control the …
DotConnectAfrica the embattled applicant of .africa gTLD string has gone full circle with the treatment of its application by the institution that is in custody of the global naming system and the internet. ICANN opened up the application round for the new gTLDs early January 2012 in a process that is currently through with the …
When one looks at the African domain applied for it’s a geographic top level domain that has attracted a not so palatable confrontation between the applicants of the current ICANN gTLD round DotConnectAfrica and Uniforum otherwise known as ZA Central registry or AfricainOneSpace. The main issue that has come to fore apart from the fact …
. Is Africa falling to another trap of group mentality and uninformed choices? Traditionally nations and especially when taken as continents have been known to take collective decisions. Just recently in the WCIT Dubai, there was mass failure of the delegates to agree on a treaty that had been crafted to replace the existing International …
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 …
My quest to find the truth about DotAfrica has been inspired by the desire to tell Africa the real history and legacy behind this great domain that is deemed as a key to the change of the African dimension online. Africa . Read More