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 …
Beijing 46th meeting was the platform that was used to post the ICANN GAC advice, which is a requirement of the new gTLD progress for all the new applications. GAC is an advisory body to ICANN. Though their advice came slightly after the deadline since the new gTLD program guideline clearly indicates in Module 3: …
Its been exposed that Uniforum SA, the allegedly AU and African Government endorsed Competition to DotConnectAfrica for the .africa TLD, does have the claimed endorsement that they have been reporting on the news media quite widely. . Additionally Uniforum’s purported AU endorsements has also been in dispute for a long time now and subject to an objection by …
DotConnectAfrica in a spirited effort to secure its application on .africa that has lately been a victim of GAC advice during the just concluded ICANN Beijing 46th meeting has called the GAC Advice anti-competitive saying: “we see the GAC Policy Advice as a wrong step, and against the explicit commitment to fair competition …
PRLog (Press Release) – May 16, 2013 – DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust), the contending applicant that submitted an independent bid for the .Africa new generic Top-Level Domain name, recently submitted another fulsome response to the ICANN Board of Directors to defend the GAC Objection Advice that was issued against its .Africa new gTLD application by …
Africa has 17 applications, 4 being geographic gTLDS, including ” .africa” which according the guidebook: “An application for a string listed as a UNESCO regions or appearing on the “Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and selected economic and other groupings” In the case of an application for a string appearing on …
“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 …
“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.” The statement above that is part of Uniforum’s reply to the Independent Objector is reminiscent of the bureaucracy that is magnificent in the existing structures that …
“For these reasons the IO, who is primarily acting as a “safety net”, does not in principle intend to file an objection on the community ground” The Independent objector has released his findings about the new gTLD ICANN applications, among the casualties of the objections are 24 objections against new applied-for gTLDs before the International Chamber of …