[AfrICANN-discuss] Help with .africa history

[Dr Yassin Mshana]

That is why there was DPD by ICANN to provide guidance too issues such as
these applications - There were interesting issues such as <.ng> and <.tv>
 issues.

This Application for the <.africa> has come up when there is maturity in
the process in the way of Guideline which should be adhered to.

Cheers
Yassin

On 2 July 2012 13:05, Vika Mpisane <vika at zadna.org.za> wrote:

>
> On 2012/07/02 1:10 PM, "Calvin Browne" <calvin at orange-tree.alt.za> wrote:
>
> >On 28/06/2012 13:24, Dandjinou Pierre wrote:
> >> Rebecca,
> >>
> >> Good you are writing the history of .Africa
> >>
> >> To my knowledge, there has not been any application for the .Africa
> >> string, apart from those we now have with the new gTLD programme.
> >
> >There was an actual application in one of the previous rounds. The
> >applicant even paid a fee, but never came to present.
> >
> >I personally helped to pen the GAC' s opposition statement to this
> >application. This statement was, if memory serves me right, actually
> >adopted by the Country Code TLD Registry Constituency, as it was then
> >known, largely intact.
> >
> >Herewith the application list concerned:
> >
> >http://archive.icann.org/en/tlds/tld-applications-lodged-02oct00.htm
>
> I never knew of this link:-( Thanks, Calvin.
>
> >
>
>
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