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

[Seun Ojedeji]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Vika Mpisane <vika at zadna.org.za> wrote:

> Seun, the debate about the suitability of generic domains like .university
> will take a long time to subside. There are credible arguments both for &
> against such gTLDs. It's possible that an association of universities may
> successfully object to .university as I don't think the .university
> application is from such an association/s. Of course, there may be a
> challenge against a successful objection seeing the .university application
> is not a community application.
>
> In essence, those in favor of new gTLDs based their arguments on choice,
> competition & consumer trust. ICANN's own premise is based on these
> factors. Yet whether or not .university provides any more choice,
> competition & trust to universities is not clear. Only time will tell…
>
> Thanks for the perspective thrown Vika and like you said only time will
tell…



> Vika
>
> From: Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: <africann at afrinic.net>
> Date: Monday 18 June 2012 1:11 PM
>
> To: <africann at afrinic.net>
> Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] [***SPAM***] Africa and new gTLD?
>
> Hello
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:24 AM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> I also like John Levine's reply about this topic on another list:
>>
>> "A reasonable interpretation of the lack of African applicants is that
>> people looked at the substantial cost and dubious benefits of a vanity TLD
>> and everyone who wasn't already drunk on ICANN kool-aid came to a rational
>> decision that their limited funds would better be spent elsewhere. "
>>
>> ++1
> I think this is an application subject to approval as i am really
> interested on those that finally get cleared. I see application  for
> extension like university, anthem, allstate...these are very critical words
> that could cause lot of segregation of the Internet, companies such as
> dstv, dotafrica, mnet, etc are ok as that is a brand name, university for
> instance is a world brand that should not be played with!
>
> If finally approved i wonder how signing up for the domain will look like.
> Looks like ICANN is looking for funds all the way, Since there is already
> ccTLD even if the extension must be created(for reasons i currently don't
> know) then let it be within the ccTLD and not at gTLD level. Which i think
> is already inplace that is why we have  .university.ng(equivalent to
> edu.ng), .allstate.us(equivalent to gov.us)  etc.....   Alhough while
> googling i realized that of US is .gov and not ccTLD like Nigeria .gov.ng
> (it may just me alone, but it seems some things have gone wrong in the past)
>
> Well perhaps there are other perspective of this whole thing that i don't
> yet understand but with my current understanding, these are un-neccessary
> partitioning!
>
> Its also interesting to note that there was one request from west Africa ;)
>
>>
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>
> Cheers!
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