<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; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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…</div><div><br></div><div>Vika</div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><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> Seun Ojedeji <<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com">seun.ojedeji@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 1:11 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>Hello<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:24 AM, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com" target="_blank">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><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>"A reasonable interpretation of the lack of African applicants is that</span><br><span>people looked at the substantial cost and dubious benefits of a vanity TLD</span><br><span>and everyone who wasn't already drunk on ICANN kool-aid came to a rational</span><br><div><span>decision that their limited funds would better be spent elsewhere.</span> "</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></span></blockquote><div>++1<br>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!<br><br>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), .<a href="http://allstate.us">allstate.us</a>(equivalent to <a href="http://gov.us">gov.us</a>) 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)<br><br>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!<br><br>Its
also interesting to note that there was one request from west Africa ;)<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- </font></span><br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">Cheers!<br>-- <br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><font color="#888888"><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;font-family:garamond,serif"><i><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)">Seun Ojedeji,<br style="color:rgb(0,102,0)"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)">Federal University Oye-Ekiti<br style="color:rgb(0,102,0)"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)">web: </span><a href="http://www.fuoye.edu.ng" target="_blank">http://www.fuoye.edu.ng</a><br><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)">Mobile: <a value="+2348035233535">+2348035233535</a></span><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)"></span><br></i><i><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)">alt email:<a href="http://goog_1872880453" target="_blank"> </a><a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@fuoye.edu.ng" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@fuoye.edu.ng</a></span></i><br></blockquote></font><br><br>
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