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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=562 height=307 src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs053/1102516344150/img/315.jpg" align=left hspace=5 vspace=5 alt="Alibaba and the 40 Thieves.. DotAfrica" name=ACCOUNT.IMAGE.315 v:shapes="_x0000_s1027"><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:20.5pt'><br><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>  </span></b> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:right'><span style='font-size:22.0pt;color:blue'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%' id="yiv1192481290content_LETTER.BLOCK5"><tr style='height:.75pt'><td style='background:#2D6F84;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:.75pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:white' id="yiv1192481290content_LETTER.BLOCK31"><tr><td style='padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>To:</span></i></b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>       The Editor-in-Chief, </span></i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>ITWebAfrica</span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We thank you for your recent article </span></i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN>(Re: '<b><span style='color:#333333'>The $185,000 dotafrica internet domain name 'misunderstanding'?'</span></b> located at </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001CJ92aFgniJroOB97SBMv4yDwt0WZiZCY9Cx75AQlmAyb4FzxuzxAupnZ063DqSOX62wX8LwWbjY711JeNOREijSs4Syreg5GQEK9GOb_s9cDWTFlGmLroACH-HSAKO7Kw8wxNhuwmva4tWlvlXqIgbju4wzk3Z8vq5EgLDjKK7sYx1mB_6HxWcm8KRPA0ja4WcqcJtyCJt2m2ee6nU5QagFE59lRZQP2wJhHdgVV8lUuE4qVRyDeeqJ23xc6jBLjAg5wrhU5ZDktaSUZdOuHD_dS74gVv0lCpXpK4VuPzCYkj4-ULrSTzpJWhyWnBYmXEjJI8NqbGjGY1i36l1Mu3HXSBbYadws0GZqQRx6qejrqK0FjSyvBjZFawABo2HRmctFyfXWklh889UBDJ-z6IqpFEwX3VS5dzvUMyU4aeWKMPgkaHcMbBUap3D6KGq0n0Yuy7pi33JrtGsDavcFdwIOFSpE9F3RlQgdGyWGFcwCm7FOpJlDC6baLr8Zeqv6JJTj3AQJ6GCUEtfRBdjm1YjWDuRd4QRXERiZnFLsc_ypD30yGs1GqUg==" target="_blank">http://www.itwebafrica.com/internet/334-africa/229830-the-185000-dotafrica-internet-domain-name-misunderstanding</a>).  </span></i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Even though your published story written by Mr. Gareth Van Zyl is quite balanced, we wish to use this opportunity to provide some relevant comments that would help <b>to further elucidate this issue for the interest of your readers and the global Internet and African publics.</b></span></i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We believe that it is also pertinent to respond to the comments made by Mr. Neil Duncan Dundas of UniForum SA trading as ZA Central Registry, who also <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>happens to be a director of DNS (Pty) Ltd., African Registry Consortium (ARC) and is now the public face, fronting the .Africa</span></strong> new gTLD application that was submitted on behalf of the <span style='color:#7F34A4'>unregistered AfricaInOneSpace.</span></span></i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'>Not A Community TLD Application</span></i></b><i><span style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>One very important issue that needs to be immediately clarified is that the .Africa new gTLD application submitted by UniForum ZA Central Registry (Application ID: 1-1243-89583) is not a Community TLD application.  The attempt that is being made to position or characterize the application as the official African Community application that is sanctioned by the African Union Commission and about '40' African countries is a very<b> </b></span></i><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>egregious and fraudulent misrepresentation</span></i></b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>.</span></i><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>  </span></i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>  </span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Let<span style='color:#7F34A4'> DCA Trust be on one side as Ali Baba</span> and let <span style='color:#7F34A4'>UniForum ZA Central Registry and its so-called partners represent the forty (40) thieves, </span></span></i><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>and the outcome of this saga can be easily predicted.</span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>One only needs to see the published parts of UniForum's application and their answers to </span></i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Question numbers <b>19 and 20 to verify that UniForum deliberately failed to acknowledge any Community in their official answers to ICANN.</b> </span></i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F34A4'>The global Internet public should know this:</span></i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'>  <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><i>  <o:p></o:p></i></p><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'>Question No. 19 an </span></i></b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div id="yiv1192481290yui_3_2_0_1_1345868812985217"><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><span class=yui320211345882510513545><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F34A4'>unequivocal </span></i></b></span><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'>"NO"</span></i></b><i> <o:p></o:p></i></p><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><i><span lang=EN> </span></i><i><o:p></o:p></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i>  <o:p></o:p></i></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>In their answer to Question No. 19 <b>("Is the application for a Community based TLD?"),</b> they unequivocally stated <b>"No".</b>  </span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#7F34A4'>Mission & Purpose of Proposed TLD </span></i></b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'> </span></i><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#7F34A4'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div id="yiv1192481290yui_3_2_0_1_1345868812985256"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>In describing the Mission and Purpose of their proposed gTLD (Question No. 18), UniForum have noted <b>inter alia</b>:</span></i><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'> <b id="yiv1192481290yui_3_2_0_1_1345868812985248">"The ZACR and its partners in Africa, representing governments, ccTLD administrators, the technical and user communities, share a collective vision of establishing and running a successful, African-based registry operation for the benefit and pride of Africa. "</b></span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div id="yiv1192481290yui_3_2_0_1_1345868812985256"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN>How could such a bold statement indicating a diverse community partnership be truly reconciled with their <b><span style='color:#7F34A4'>blank answer to Question 20(a)?</span></b> </span></i><i><o:p></o:p></i></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN> </span></i><i><o:p></o:p></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'>Answers to Q 20 (a) to (f) - Blank</span></i></b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><b><i><span lang=EN style='color:#7F34A4'> </span></i></b><i><span style='color:#7F34A4'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div style='margin-left:22.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'>(a) Provide the name and full description of the community that the applicant is committing serve</span></i></b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'>; <b>UniForum intentionally </b></span></i><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F34A4'>left it blank</span></i></b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'>, thus indicating that they have not actually named any  community that they claim to be committing to serve in their new gTLD application for .Africa.</span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><i> <o:p></o:p></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Interestingly, UniForum also left their answers to the following important Community TLD-<b><span style='color:#7F34A4'>related questions <u>blank:</u></span></b></span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The question  No. 20 (b) - (e) which immediately follows:</span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div style='margin-left:22.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'>(b) Explain the applicant's relationship to the community identified in 20(a). </span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div style='margin-left:22.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'>(c) Provide a description of the community-based purpose of the applied-for gTLD. </span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div style='margin-left:22.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'>(d) Explain the relationship between the applied for gTLD string and the community identified in 20(a). </span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div style='margin-left:22.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'>(e) Provide a complete description of the applicant's intended registration policies in support of the community-based purpose of the applied-for gTLD. Policies and enforcement mechanisms are expected to constitute a coherent set. </span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div style='margin-left:22.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'>(f) Attach any written endorsements for the application from established institutions representative of the community identified in 20(a). An applicant may submit written endorsements by multiple institutions, if relevant to the community.</span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><i>   <o:p></o:p></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><i>  </i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><i><span style='color:black'>DCA Trust strongly believes that the application submitted by UniForum is an outright misrepresentation and fraud.   According to the published parts of their application, all the pertinent questions relating to a Community TLD have been answered with a blank (Nos. 19, 20 (a) - (e); meanwhile, they keep waving a purported Letter of Appointment from the AU Commission whilst trying to identify their application as belonging to the African Community based on their relationship with African Internet Community Organizations. </span></i><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></i></b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'>ICANN Evaluation cannot be Fooled</span></i></b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><i> <o:p></o:p></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'>UniForum cannot fool the ICANN Evaluation with this very silly and dishonest gimmick.</span></i></b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> If they have actually submitted an application on behalf of the African Community according to their <b>putative, or rather specious, letter of support from the African Union Commission,</b> then they should have <b><span style='color:#7F34A4'>been confident enough</span></b> to </span></i><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'>truthfully answer question Nos. 19, 20 (a) - 20 (e), and reconciled same to their stated Mission & Purpose</span></i></b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>.  Therefore, their claim that they have the support of African country governments cannot be substantiated, since the African Governments have been misled to provide support for an African Community TLD application, but none was actually submitted to ICANN based on the answers provided to question numbers 19 and 20 by UniForum in their .Africa new gTLD application.</span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'>Letters of Support from 40 African Countries</span></i></b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Moreover, <b>if the boastful claims of letters of support from </b></span></i><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F34A4'>"over forty (40) African countries"</span></i></b><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> are actually coming from the country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLD)</span></i></b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>, since the AfTLD (African Top-Level Domain) has lent its name and support to the UniForum new gTLD application for .Africa, <b><span style='color:#7F34A4'>DCA Trust will also challenge the involvement of AfTLD and whatever role that they are playing in assisting UniForum to garner questionable letters of support from African ccTLDs</span>.  </b></span></i><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>DCA believes that the role of the ccTLDs should be strictly limited to managing and administering the country code TLD</span></i></b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>, and should have no involvement whatsoever in the management and administration of a continental Top-Level Domain such as .Africa. </span></i><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>.   If the Internet Governance Model does not allow the ccTLDs to own a Continental gTLD, we do not believe that the same African ccTLDs should be involved in any cooperative framework with UniForum SA to apply for, and own the new .Africa gTLD. </span></i><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> The Individual African ccTLDs cannot participate at the country-code level and also at the <span class=yui320211345882510513611>continental</span><span class=yui320211345882510513613> level.  </span></span></i></b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><b><i> </i></b><i><o:p></o:p></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'>Looming Threat of African Countries</span></i></b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'>Objecting DCA Application </span></i></b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>  <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Accordingly,  <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>the threat implied by Neil Duncan Dundas that some African countries have stated their intention (communicated through ZACR) </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F34A4'>to object to the DCA application for .Africa is unfounded and lacks merit, </span></i></b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>  <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>since such an Objection will be treated as <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>  <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'>frivolous.</span></i></b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The African countries can only participate in a Community Objection procedure against DCA, but i<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>  <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:maroon'>n a situation where no African Community TLD application was actually submitted for the .Africa gTLD by UniForum, how do they intend to validate such an Objection?  </span></i></b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>  <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i>DCA believes that this is just an empty threat, and Mr. Neil Dundas and his cohorts should now be <o:p></o:p></i></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><b><i>held to account by the African country governments and the African Union </i></b><i><o:p></o:p></i></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i>Commission to explain the egregious fraud that UniForum has perpetrated by misrepresenting their application; to wit, obtaining specious support for an African Community TLD application from the AUC, but failing to indicate a relationship with any community in the official answers contained in their .Africa new gTLD application submitted to ICANN.<o:p></o:p></i></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></i></b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><span class=yui320211345882510513693><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F34A4'>African governments should NOT have a</span></i></b></span><span class=yui320211345882510513695><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F34A4'> case against DCA-</span></i></b></span><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><span class=yui320211345882510513701><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:#7F34A4'>Instead they should withdraw support from UNIFORUM</span></i></b></span><b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>  </span></i></b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>  <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>  <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></i></b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><span class=yui320211345882510513713><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Once the African governments discover that they really have no case against DCA Trust, they </span></i></b></span><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>will start withdrawing their support from UniForum</span></i></b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>.  DCA therefore stands ready to defend itself against any form of Objection. Mr. Neil Dundas should save his personal integrity and reputation and that of the organization that he represents by <b><span style='color:maroon'>explaining to the global Internet Community and African Governments that have supported UniForum's .Africa gTLD  application, why he deliberately failed to submit a DotAfrica (.Africa) new gTLD application on behalf of the African Community.</span></b>  After all, if African country governments have provided any form of support for an African Community TLD application, they should also make sure that one was actually submitted to ICANN.</span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The same way </span></i><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Ali Baba managed to expose and defeat the dishonesty of the forty (40) thieves</span></i></b><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> is the same way DCA Trust will expose and defeat UniForum's dishonesty over the matter of DotAfrica, after which there will be </span></i><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F34A4'>no misunderstanding anymore over the DotAfrica Internet domain name.</span></i></b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:center'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We thank you for your attention.</span></i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>Yours sincerely,</span></i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>DCA Public Communications Team</span></i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Nairobi, Kenya</span></i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%' id="yiv1192481290content_LETTER.BLOCK10"><tr style='height:.75pt'><td style='background:#2D6F84;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:.75pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;display:table' id="yiv1192481290content_LETTER.BLOCK40"><tr><td style='padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;text-indent:9.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Related Articles on UNIFORUM,  founders of ARC and AU EOI/RFP Process:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>   <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>   -<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001CJ92aFgniJogMxTXJbIYU7pWDrnYvhcnLAp33A8ZaRGbKC3oBL6LTK1sbJvTXa-gsg4ha5MDhEKkQrnftMsbitKsubBu5keM25_y2gzilBthFDt9wHxcNyK9lwQ23v4P1HBzIQC9AzDlckvuS4ShzXfHAQuqdkOZlf86v-sWdZwnpQmkdDUD8K91lww1Sr5_mj_LHi_uH7w=" target="_blank">Exclusive Commentary from DCA: <span style='color:red'>AFTLD seeks mandate to manage .africa </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>   -<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001CJ92aFgniJqNHNJ5xIYn45uUNRxih76wjB7pdPawDe_FEn6jSsogMuyYDe3PaEexwbulv4RZC_7Maoz1QEFkJkUD5B45rw1g5xFSg1CsscGxEb1X_EUc-dMOJ8wdJdyR0vCpuVHdTfMxyk_8UDC1HJQLWVr5cpBNyl7nwjmo1zkByxeaVMvvWV0UWB69e5Lk7zV0DNbx8JU=" target="_blank"><span style='color:red'>Rejoinder:</span> Official Response: Kevin Murphy- DOMIANINCITE<span style='font-size:9.0pt'> -</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:red'>Only ICANN should decide on .Africa</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>   -<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001CJ92aFgniJrL6rP1vXQ-MgxKw2j4g6kbFm1ygp7PcG2Mk2TFvjmSOHB9mpEQbSHsfZpnyAkwAhVe_mje21Xpq8ASTvrzMbK2QDG6EdYCwhtVevUWhPdUsPzrClQTItizpM_yz5kGATQwd-wBZInTzzyzgpvNY4-xVWIvwKj2V3WKJbXBIjUEuBi4bgJkPOlSkHexatZRr8k=" target="_blank">DCA Exclusive Commentary:<span style='color:red'> A Moral Victory:</span> "The Structure" - The Internet Kill 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