[AfrICANN-discuss] Help with .africa history

Fri Jul 20 12:55:00 SAST 2012

Dear Community,

I think it's time for people around the world to mobilize to reorient the new gTLD initiative of ICANN.

First, the expression "newgTLD" chosen by ICANN is not adequate. It is confusing.

It would have been desirable, in the concern to respect the national sovereignty (.cameroon, .lagos, .douala, etc.), in the concern to respect the regional sovereignty (.africa, .afrique, .europe, etc.) and in the concerns to respect the cultural identities (.biafra, .muslim, .bamileke, etc.), to talk about newTLD (removing the "g"), instead of new gTLD.

The international community understands the economic issues that have motivated the choice of ICANN, and the desire for open Internet for all and without control! We appreciate it!

Second, For me, dotAfrica or dotAfrique belongs to the category newregionalTLDs and not to the category newgTLDs.

From this perspective, the open conflict between DCA and UniForum will not exist. In this sense, ICANN can then negotiate only with the African Union.

ICANN must implement a systematic policy to protect newnationalTLDs and newregionalTLDs. Only the newgTLDs ("g" as generic and not "g" as geaographic) will be object of open competition.

Best regards.

--
Pierre Lotis NANKEP
IT Engineer / ANTIC
Web : http://www.antic.cm
Email (Pro) : pierre.nankep at antic.cm
GSM : +237 77 66 10 07

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 De : Lerato Mamboleo <lerato.ma at yahoo.com>
À : "africann at afrinic.net" <africann at afrinic.net> 
Envoyé le : Jeudi 19 juillet 2012 17h23
Objet : Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Help with .africa history

I think DCA has already given their clarification in response to UNIFORUM's  push for media manipulation to its favor, which seem to continue http://www.prlog.org/11899992-dca-trust-and-uniforum-sa-have-both-applied-for-the-same-africa-geographic-name.html 

It is my understanding that many of the IDN TLDS were corrected by ICANN before publishing for similar errors as some registries have reported, why  DCA's application did not get similar treatment leaves it to certain imagination.  Despite, ICANN has made a statement to fix such errors, who caused what error is not determined I suppose. Here is a link that states the case:  http://domainnamewire.com/2012/06/19/icann-may-let-new-tld-applicants-modify-their-applications/

The group is working on a process that could allow applicants to fix errors in their final applications. Officially:

ICANN has received requests for changes to submitted applications. We take these requests very seriously and are working on developing guidelines for these changes.
The ICANN community spent a lot of time coming up with applicant guidelines, but one it didn’t think to include was a mechanism for fixing errors in applications.

Hope this helps.

--Lerato Ma

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 From: McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>
To: africann at afrinic.net 
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Help with .africa history

Hi all,

The bottom line is that there has only been one Applicant for .africa
according to:

http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en

or is ICANN information incorrect?

Regards,

McTim
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