<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">I think DCA has already given their clarification in response to UNIFORUM's push for </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">media manipulation to its favor, which seem to continue </span><a href="http://www.prlog.org/11899992-dca-trust-and-uniforum-sa-have-both-applied-for-the-same-africa-geographic-name.html" style="font-size: 12pt; ">http://www.prlog.org/11899992-dca-trust-and-uniforum-sa-have-both-applied-for-the-same-africa-geographic-name.html</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">It is my understanding that many of the IDN TLDS were corrected by <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1342714836_1" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(54,
99, 136); border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); ">ICANN</span> before publishing for similar errors as some registries have reported, why DCA's application did not get similar treatment leaves it to certain imagination. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Despite, ICANN has made a statement to fix such errors, who caused what error is not </span>determined<span style="font-size: 12pt; "> I suppose. Here is a link that states the case: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://domainnamewire.com/2012/06/19/icann-may-let-new-tld-applicants-modify-their-applications/" style="color: rgb(35, 71, 134); outline: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-size: 12pt; "><span class=""
id="lw_1342714836_2">http://domainnamewire.com/2012/06/19/icann-may-let-new-tld-applicants-modify-their-applications/</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; ">The group is working on a process that could allow applicants to fix errors in their final applications. Officially:</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times, serif; "><blockquote style="margin: 20px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 1px 0px 1px 20px; font-style: italic; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><div style="padding: 1em 0px 0px; line-height: 16px; ">ICANN has received requests for changes to submitted applications. We take these requests very seriously and are working
on developing guidelines for these changes.</div></blockquote><div style="padding: 1em 0px 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">The ICANN community spent a lot of time coming up with applicant guidelines, but one it didn’t think to include was a mechanism for fixing errors in applications.</div></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times, serif; "> </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times, serif; ">Hope this helps.</div></div><div> </div><div>--Lerato Ma<br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> africann@afrinic.net
<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:55 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Help with .africa history<br> </font> </div> <br>
Hi all,<br><br>The bottom line is that there has only been one Applicant for .africa<br>according to:<br><br>http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en<br><br>or is ICANN information incorrect?<br><br>Regards,<br><br>McTim<br>_______________________________________________<br>AfrICANN mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net" href="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net">AfrICANN@afrinic.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann" target="_blank">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>