<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div></div><div><br> </div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">----- Forwarded Message ----<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Eric Akumiah <eakumiah2001@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ISOC Ghana <isoc@isoc.gh>; Ghnog list <ghnog@isoc.gh><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Ghana Connect <participants@ghanaconnect.org.gh><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sat, May 22, 2010 6:42:22 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [ISOC] PRESS RELEASE: Ghana Dot Com
Accredited as ICANN Registrar of Domain Names<br></font><br>
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line-height:normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">For
Immediate Release</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">Ghana Dot Com Accredited as ICANN
Registrar of Domain Names</span></p>
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line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"> </span></p>
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text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><i style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Accra, Ghana 18 May, 2010</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">. The Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has accredited a Ghanaian
company Ghana Dot Com LTD as accredited Registrar of domain names in the
generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) names registries. The accreditation enables
Ghana Dot Com to register names into gTLD registries including .com, .org,
.net, .info and to host websites for these domain names. Domain names are
symbolic name references to information resources on the Internet commonly
known as websites that run on servers</span></p>
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text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><a target="_blank" href="http://Ghana.COM">Ghana.COM</a> whose headquarters
is located at East Legon, Accra Ghana is a descendant company of the Internet
pioneering company Network Computer Systems (NCS) and today became the third
company in Africa to receive the accreditation and joins Internet Solutions of
South Africa and Kheweul of Senegal. </span></p>
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text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Ghana.COM aims to
bring more people into the community of websites and providers of information
services. Africa and in particular Ghana stand to benefit by having an
alternate avenue for acquiring generic domain names closer to them for their
personal or business information needs. Ghana.COM expects to be multi currency
and accept payments in convertible currencies in the region and for example
customers in Ghana may pay for services in Ghana Cedis and likewise for CFA
regions</span></p>
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text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">The business
venture aims to increase content and transactional web services in Africa by
making domain names more readily available in our environment. </span></p>
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text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">"This
accreditation is a welcomed opportunity for Ghana.COM to globally offer domain
name registration and web hosting services. We hope that this venture will
present a platform for hosting more localized content and in local languages to
develop the African information resource market. Ghana.COM plans to be
Registrar also for country code<span style=""> </span>top
level domain (ccTLD) registries in Africa including .GH, .NG and others, which
will further grow domain name market in Africa</span></p>
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text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">We note that the
lack of financial instruments in Africa has been the principal challenge of registrars
which when managed can boost the information economy. Ghana.COM looks to its
native innovative eCommerce payment processing eCash framework to reach out to
non-traditional payment methods and bring new domain name registrants into the
market" says Prof. Nii Quaynor, Chairman of Ghana Dot Com</span></p>
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text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">It is a widely
held view that content in Africa is rather poor and Ghana Dot Com is counting
on enabling content providers by making domain names available and hosting
easy. The Internet technical community continues its advancement by working
directly in the market and practically building self sustaining
info-structures. Ghana.Com will leverage the Internet pioneering expertise of
NCS, in system characterization, integration and ecommerce as a response</span></p>
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text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">About Ghana Dot
Com LTD</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Ghana Dot Com LTD
was incorporated in 2007 to provide highly specialized technology and support
services using open standards of the Internet. Ghana.COM is composed of
dynamic, young, highly trained and disciplined staff who are eager to assist
clients. We invest in training our human resources to be able to keep up with
changes in technology and maintain a core team of international quality
researchers who focus on networks and Internet standards. Ghana.COM is systems
integrator inherits experience from the years of Network Computer Systems (NCS)
founded in 1988 and pioneered Internet in West Africa in 1993.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">A pdf version is herewith attached.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Ghana.COM
offers<span style=""> </span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">- iPhone
application development with commodity products available at iPhone store</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">- Multimedia
archival in Cloud Computing solutions for clients</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">- eCommerce
frameworks for merchant networks and operates a payment processor for financial
instruments</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">- Hosting of
websites, SMS and email services</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">- Network system
characterization and bandwidth management for banking institutions </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">- Operates a
content network in Accra</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">- Internet Access</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">- Training and
Consulting</span></p>
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line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Ghana Dot Com LTD</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">16 Boundary Road,
East Legon</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Accra, Ghana</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><a rel="nofollow">Tel:+233</a>
302 521694</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">email: support@ghana.com</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><span>website:
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ghana.com">www.ghana.com</a></span></span></p>
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