<font>All,<br><br></font>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Here is another perspective to the
North America big new gTLD application volume, Americans have more money to
spend on the entrepreneurship and taking risk on innovation which is very much
part of their culture. It’s not about being stupid nor smart, it all gravitates
to the real fact that Africa does not have the money to play with, nor does it
have the culture of entrepreneurship to play with huge sums of money, but this
is slowly coming, with the applications that we have seen, and Africa will
reach this level.<br><br></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Given that gTLDs were also invented
by the USA, it’s not surprising that people in US took more chance thus the
many applicant, besides, do not forget that most of the new gTLD applications
were brand protection names, given that most companies as well are western it’s
only natural that the numbers would weigh in depending on the number of firms.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I believe that Africa will soon be
able to come at par, with the rest of the other developed nations, just a
little more effort from the government to the Private sector.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>
Gideon Rop.</span></font></p>
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From: Douglas Onyango <<a href="mailto:ondouglas@gmail.com">ondouglas@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Still on new gTLD<br>
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All,<br>
On 7 July 2012 04:11, Remmy Nweke <<a href="mailto:remmyn@gmail.com">remmyn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> This may be of interest to some of us.<br>
> <a href="http://www.itrealms.com.ng/2012/07/new-gtld-why-africa-ranks-low.html" target="_blank">http://www.itrealms.com.ng/2012/07/new-gtld-why-africa-ranks-low.html</a><br>
>North Americas having the highest applications amounting to 911, Europe follows with 675,<br>
>Asia pacific which already has one continental domain .asia has three hundred and three domains<br>
>, Latin America which shares the same ecological niche with Africa has 24 new applications<br>
> 7 domains higher than Africa which has presented 17 new domains<br>
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This statement is flawed and since the writer chose to use it to base<br>
his article, I would argue that the article then follow sas flawed - I<br>
will explain<br>
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For the simple reason that applying for TLDs and possibly operating a<br>
registry from places like Africa would present unique challenges and<br>
can be very costly. My assessment is that it is in the interest of<br>
many to do this from the US or some place else where there is already<br>
existing Infrastructure that would cut costs -- and If someone else is<br>
thinking like I am, then it goes without say that the number of<br>
applicants from areas like North America (NA) would be higher --<br>
however on this backdrop, I would really be hesitant on crediting all<br>
these registrations to NA<br>
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Also note that the bulk of applications being credited to NA are not<br>
going to be uniquely NA, but generic string that we are all going to<br>
us - and maybe even more than we use some of our own strings. This is<br>
another reason I would really be hesitant to use the numbers as they<br>
are printed by ICANN, but try to build some perspective to the stats.<br>
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Now, IMHO a better way to gauge interest and usage of new GTLDs would<br>
be to use strings that are actually unique to communities - like the<br>
Geographic TLDs - these should tell exactly how well communities<br>
understand the value of new GTLDs. You will be surprised to learn that<br>
Africa has 5 Geographic strings beating North America with 4 and Latin<br>
America with 2.<br>
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Ok, now we have the number right -- can we now talk again about "in<br>
terms of economic development as well internet infrastructure"??<br>
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