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West Africa’s Gabon scuppers Megaupload’s new website plans

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West African nation Gabon plans blocking the mooted creation of a new website from file sharing service Megaupload that could use the African country’s internet domain name ‘.ga’.

US authorities have disabled www.megaupload.com, after charges of a conspiracy to commit racketeering, copyright infringement and money laundering have been levelled at Megaupload founder and German tech entrepreneur Kim Dotcom. Read More

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James Barnley

I’m the editor of the DomainingAfrica. I write about internet and social media, focusing mainly on Domains. As a subscriber to my newsletter, you’ll get a lot of information on Domain Issues, ICANN, new gtld’s, Mobile technology and social media.