[AfrICANN-discuss] Statment of the joint meeting of African community

Wed Sep 24 12:18:43 UTC 2014

The ongoing work on "support DNS industry growth in underserved regions" is an outcome /response of the African strategy in this RAA issue.
By reading the comments, you can understand that there are some people who want to keep the DNS market for them and don't want to see ICANN making positive discrimination for the registrars start-up in developing countries. They rather want ICANN to support the reseller chain because it will be good for their business.

May be ICANN doesn't have  budgetary problems...but remember ICANN has seriously increase its expenses since the launch of the NewgTLDs programs (almost double its staff, financially support many IGFs initiatives, increase compensations of its board members and CEO, ...).

So let's ask ICANN to use the money mainly to support their main business or core mission: The DNS industry...And make room for newcomers in the domain name market. 
Best regards,

************
Victor Ndonnang
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~Sent from my iPhone~

> On Sep 24, 2014, at 2:11 AM, Mwendwa Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:
> 
> Gala night was scrapped in ICANN51.
> Despite that, ICANN does not have budgetary problems. They can subsidize requirements for accreditation for developing countries and still follow their tradition.
> 
> In the African Strategy, one of the key points was to work towards increase of ICANN accredited registrars in the region. Maybe one of the Stakeholder staff in the region can give us a brief on this.
> 
> Regards
> 
> ______________________
> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
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> 
> "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson
> 
>> On 24 September 2014 03:30, Victor Ndonnang <ndonnang at nvconsulting.biz> wrote:
>> +1 Dr. Lisse,
>> 
>> This is an excellent proposition. We can see how to integrate it into the
>> ICANN ongoing work exploring how to support development of the Domain Name
>> industry in developing countries...
>> 
>> https://www.icann.org/news/blog/kick-starting-dns-industry-growth-in-underse
>> rved-regions
>> https://www.icann.org/public-comments/dns-underserved-2014-05-14-en
>> 
>> Finding ways to support the ICANN registrar accreditation process for small
>> businesses from developing world, especially Africa has been the main focus
>> of participation in ICANN since years. I talk about this during the first
>> Africa DNS forum...I called it "positive discrimination" and this will be
>> perfectly in line with ICANN Fellowship program.
>> 
>> I support the idea 100% and will proudly join the campaign.
>> 
>> Ps. The starting money of that fund can come from the NewgTLDS auctions...
>> http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Victor.
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: africann-bounces at afrinic.net [mailto:africann-bounces at afrinic.net] On
>> Behalf Of Dr Eberhard W Lisse
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 6:23 PM
>> To: africann at afrinic.net
>> Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Statment of the joint meeting of African
>> community
>> 
>> Oh by the way,
>> 
>> why are we not campaigning that ICANN stop wasting money on galas and
>> instead pump that money and the corresponding donations into a fund that
>> subsidizes the general liability insurance requirement for start-up
>> Registrars from developing countries?
>> 
>> el
>> 
>> On 2014-09-23, 10:11 , Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
>> > But, never ending discussion us all we (you) do here.  And
>> > complimenting individuals upon taking up and relinquishing well
>> > remunerated positions of various impact.
>> >
>> > Can a list member show me one single example of anything practical
>> > coming out of this list?  I.e. changed outcome?
>> >
>> > Nada!
>> >
>> > PS: It's actually quite childish to post at hominem (against which I
>> > have nothing, at all, per se) to a list the target is not subscribed
>> > to.  But then, again, it's just waffling as usual.
>> >
>> > el
>> >
>> > on 2014-09-22, 14:47 Victor Ndonnang said the following:
>> >> Hi Seun,
>> >> My previous message was my way to avoid starting a never ending
>> >> discussing with Dr. Elberhard W Lisse.
>> >> Of course I still interesting in following up...
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Victor
>> >>
>> >> ************
>> >> Victor Ndonnang
>> >> https://twitter.com/VictorNdonnang
>> >> <https://mobile.twitter.com/VictorNdonnang>
>> >> ~Sent from my iPhone~
>> >>
>> >> On Sep 22, 2014, at 1:23 AM, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com
>> >> <mailto:seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Looks like you are both in agreement.  One question will be; if you
>> >>> think it's captured, what are you contributing to liberate it.
>> >>> @Victor if you are still interested in following up your initial
>> >>> comments, it's been noted accordingly.
>> >>>
>> >>> Cheers!
>> >>>
>> >>> sent from Google nexus 4
>> >>> kindly excuse brevity and typos.
>> 
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