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>
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</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>
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