Hello helloo..,<div><br></div><div>It seems that the need to separate politics from Internet business is not possible to us Africans?</div><div><br></div><div>Please leave political bodies such as NEPAD be under AU etc but running a business is something different!</div>
<div><br></div><div>What is the role of GAC? Or rather has it been changed overnight? The AU, EU, Regulators belong to in - they should not be involved in running or applicatiions for ccTLD or gTLD.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Colleagues, please leave AU out of this ..africa issue - that is if you can..? </div><div><br></div><div>Let us concentrate on the true story if it is still News.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div><br>
</div><div>Yassin</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 July 2012 15:05, Brian Munyao Longwe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blongwe@gmail.com" target="_blank">blongwe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thanks for the clarification McTim. The ICANN information is correct.<div><br></div><div>But it seems that some of the proponents of the other string that was applied for (.dotafrica) are creating (or trying to create) confusion between the two.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The community (39 countries in Africa) and the AUC have already clearly expressed their support for the .africa application. We should remain focused and work towards building even greater support for this process.</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
The bottom line is that there has only been one Applicant for .africa<br>
according to:<br>
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<a href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en" target="_blank">http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en</a><br>
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or is ICANN information incorrect?<br>
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McTim<br>
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