<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><div><div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">John Levine's analysis is put in a more interesting way, McTim:-)</div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> McTim <<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> <<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Monday 18 June 2012 12:24 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> <<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] [***SPAM***] Africa and new gTLD?<br></div><div><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Vika Mpisane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vika@zadna.org.za" target="_blank">vika@zadna.org.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div>Allow me to take a quick stab at your question, Remmy.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1</div><div><br></div><div>I also like John Levine's reply about this topic on another list:</div><div><br></div><span style="">"A reasonable interpretation of the lack of African applicants is that</span><br style=""><span style="">people looked at the substantial cost and dubious benefits of a vanity TLD</span><br style=""><span style="">and everyone who wasn't already drunk on ICANN kool-aid came to a rational</span><br style=""><div><span style="">decision that their limited funds would better be spent elsewhere.</span> "</div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>
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