[AfrICANN-discuss] [SPAM] Africa and new gTLD?

Mon Jun 18 07:16:17 UTC 2012

Allow me to take a quick stab at your question, Remmy.

Yes, 17 gTLD applications from Africa is really not good, but is still
linked to the growth of domain name industry in Africa, which is still
substantially behind that of other regions. For example, we have 5 or 6
ICANN accredited registrars in the region. My limited experience on new
gTLDs showed that ICANN accredited registrars played an important role in
advising corporates to look at new gTLD possibilities. So in Africa, having
5 accredited registrars could be one of the reason for the existing lack of
awareness on gTLDs.

Yet the fact that some of the African applications are from corporates shows
some of the "registrars" (ICANN accredited or not) did educate some
corporates. That's nice to see.

I personally think the 17 applications are quite credible & give us a bit of
a slice of the new gTLD market. What is not nice, though, is the fact that a
substantial number of these 17 applications have non-African registry
operators. That's where we're missing out on an opportunity to prove the
resiliency of the African registry infrastructure & to develop registry
management skills.

Regards,

Vika Mpisane | Tel: +27 11 314 0077

From:  Remmy Nweke <remmyn at gmail.com>
Reply-To:  <africann at afrinic.net>
Date:  Monday 18 June 2012 1:49 AM
To:  <africann at afrinic.net>
Subject:  [AfrICANN-discuss] [***SPAM***]  Africa and new gTLD?

Hi I hope this mail meets you well.

I would like your response on below.

The gTLD applications received from 60 countries and territories, broken
down by ICANN¹s geographic regions;
* 911 from North America.
* 675 from Europe.
* 303 are from Asia-Pacific.
* 24 from Latin America and the Caribbean.
* 17 from Africa.
What do you make of Africa's least position? Does it mean that Africa govts
and enterpreneurs care less of the new gTLD and are ready to catch up?

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