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<br><font size=2><tt>Thanks Mawaki,<br>
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Internet Solutions in South Africa is the first !! Congrat to them !<br>
But there are not active registrar http://www.is.co.za, they are doing
ISP<br>
business in South Africa, VOIP and Hosting.<br>
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They just steel me the awards of being the first !! <br>
I get the project for more than two years but we are slow in process but
we<br>
always will make it !.<br>
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Regards<br>
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Mouhamet Diop<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: africann-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:africann-bounces@afrinic.net]
On<br>
Behalf Of Mawaki Chango<br>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:11 PM<br>
To: africann@afrinic.net<br>
Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN Accredits First Registrar in Senegal<br>
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BTW, which one was the first accredited registrar in the whole<br>
continent?<br>
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--- Anne-Rachel Inné <annerachel@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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> Dear All,<br>
> Please join in congratulating Mouhamet Diop for the birth of<br>
> KHEWEUL.COM,<br>
> the first registrar accredited by ICANN in West Africa! Good<br>
> luck Mouhamet.<br>
> ar<br>
> <br>
> ---------------------------------------------------------<br>
> ICANN Accredits First Registrar in Senegal<br>
> <br>
> 14 May 2007<br>
> <br>
> *MARINA DEL REY, Calif.*: The Internet Corporation for<br>
> Assigned Names and<br>
> Numbers (ICANN) has signed its first accreditation agreement<br>
> with a<br>
> Senegal-based Registrar – Kheweul.com SA from Dakar.<br>
> <br>
> "We have accreditation agreements with more than 890<br>
> Registrars across the<br>
> world – and this is only the second in Africa," said<br>
> Anne-Rachel Inné,<br>
> ICANN's Regional Liaison for Africa. "ICANN is continually<br>
> working to expand<br>
> its international participation and representation – and this<br>
> agreement is<br>
> an important step forward in that."<br>
> <br>
> Kheweul.com has been accredited to register domain names from<br>
> the .biz,<br>
> .com, .info, .name, .net, .org, and .pro top-level domains.<br>
> <br>
> "We're proud to be the first ICANN-accredited Registrar in<br>
> West Africa and<br>
> the second in Africa," said Mouhamet Diop, Chairman and CEO of<br>
> Kheweul.com.<br>
> "Kheweul.Com is going to work closely with all African<br>
> country-code<br>
> top-level domain managers and all world-wide registries to<br>
> provide domain<br>
> name services to local African communities. We also plan to<br>
> promote the<br>
> digitalization of African cultural heritage and help the<br>
> preserve of African<br>
> multimedia content."<br>
> <br>
> ICANN successfully introduced competition in the registrar<br>
> marketplace that<br>
> has resulted in the over 890 ICANN accredited registrars now<br>
> offering a<br>
> range of registration services. A complete list of accredited<br>
> registrars is<br>
> available at:<br>
> http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html.<br>
> <br>
> ICANN has a contractual relationship with all accredited<br>
> registrars that<br>
> clearly sets forth the obligations of accredited registrars.<br>
> This<br>
> information is available at:<br>
> http://www.icann.org/registrars/ra-agreement-17may01.htm.<br>
> <br>
> * About ICANN: *<br>
> <br>
> ICANN is responsible for the global coordination of the<br>
> Internet's system of<br>
> unique identifiers like domain names (like .org, .museum and<br>
> country codes<br>
> like .uk) and the addresses used in a variety of Internet<br>
> protocols that<br>
> help computers reach each other over the Internet. Careful<br>
> management of<br>
> these resources is vital to the Internet's operation, so<br>
> ICANN's global<br>
> stakeholders meet regularly to develop policies that ensure<br>
> the Internet's<br>
> ongoing security and stability. ICANN is an internationally<br>
> organized,<br>
> public benefit non-profit company. For more information please<br>
> visit:<br>
> www.icann.org.<br>
> <br>
> *About Kheweul.Com: *<br>
> <br>
> Kheweul.Com is a Senegalese private company based in Senegal,<br>
> registered<br>
> under the African Jurisdiction, called OHADA, and will serve<br>
> all African<br>
> countries for any purposes related to Domain Names business.<br>
> For more<br>
> information please visit: www.kheweul.com.<br>
> <br>
> Mouhamet Diop's bio and involvement with the international<br>
> functions of<br>
> ICANN are online at: http://www.icann.org/biog/diop.htm.<br>
> <br>
> *Media Contacts: *<br>
> <br>
> Jason Keenan<br>
> Media Adviser, ICANN (USA)<br>
> Ph: +1 310 382 4004<br>
> E: jason.keenan@icann.org<br>
> <br>
> Mouhamet Diop<br>
> Chairman & CEO<br>
> Kheweul.Com<br>
> SENEGAL<br>
> Ph: +221 821 29 39<br>
> Cell: +221 638 42 88<br>
> E: mouhamet.diop@kheweul.com<br>
> <br>
> International: Andrew Robertson<br>
> Edelman (London)<br>
> Ph: +44 7921 588 770<br>
> E: andrew.robertson@edelman.com<br>
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