[AfrICANN-discuss] SCALING UP THE ROOT-NEW gTLD

[Dr Yassin Mshana]

Hi,
I think the presentation was not targeting the SMEs in the Internet-based
businesses - in smoother words: it did not consider all scenarios e.g. the
situation of the growing African market.

Or did it?



2009/5/13 Calvin Browne <calvin at orange-tree.alt.za>

> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 09:42 +0300, McTim wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Abulkhirat Esam
> > <AbulkhiratE at africa-union.org> wrote:
> > > Dear colleagues,
> > >
> > > This is a presentation (link below) made at last week's RIPE meeting by
> a
> > > representative of Autonomica, one of the root server operators. It
> seems to
> > > expresses some serious concerns from a stability perspective about
> ICANN's
> > > plan to effectively allow unrestricted growth in the root zone file in
> the
> > > context of new gTLDs.
> >
> > I share those concerns, but am confident the financial barrier will
> > mean very low uptake.
>
> the proposed financial barrier (while maybe high in developing
> countries) are imho quite small. I think I could easily get a dozen
> South African companies interested without doing too much of a marketing
> pitch...
>
> regards
>
> --Calvin
>
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