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 …
The new ICANN gTLD process has received quite unlikely request from an applicant for .africa string DotConnectAfrica which is headquartered in Mauritius, but has a strong base of representation in Kenya, Addis Ababa, California and the United Kingdom. DotConnectAfrica has applied to set up the registry in the Kenyan capital should ICANN delegate it to …
— downplaying the serious issues which should benefit the ICANN new gTLD program applicants DotConnectAfrica has reportedly sent a letter to the Congress on 21 February 2013. The intent does not appear to have been directed at the issues concerning the ICANN ombudsman Chris Lahatte and his unsatisfactory response to DotConnectAfrica’s claim, that there existed …
Ms. Sophia Bekele DCA Registry Services, Kenya Mr. Neil Dundas Uniforum ZACR, South Africa Compare your Benefits: In my research since the .africa domain became official, I have been looking and comparing the various houses and their benefits towards the African context. I have looked at the publicly available information and drew up the …
Africa has grown in very paradoxical ways, while it remains to be the most endowed continent with its vast resources still untapped . The biggest problem that Africa seems to have suffered from is the inferiority complex where defeatism and weakness rather than meekness has eaten it to the core. The fact is …
DCA’s response to ICANN Board on its 17 Country objections is full of sensible explanation as to why ICANN cannot use the GAC recommendations in the early warning as a parting shot to its evaluation process in determining who will run the African registry. read more
Even though your published story written by Mr. Gareth Van Zyl is quite balanced, we wish to use this opportunity to provide some relevant comments that would help to further elucidate this issue for the interest of your readers and the global Internet and African public. Read More