<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>Ideally it should cost less than US $20 per domain name of which $12 are for Admin and related charges inclusive of revenue.<br><br><br><font size="2">From Yassin . Sent from samsung mobile. On O2.</font> <br><br><br>SM <sm@resistor.net> wrote:<br><br><br>Hi Kivuva,<br>At 14:36 18-10-2012, Kivuva wrote:<br>>SM, its obvious we need to pull up our socks, although those<br>>statistics are a bit biased. I know for a fact that there are more<br><br>Yes.<br><br>>gTLDs registered by Africans for Africa than there are ccTLD. If<br>>current and future generations start registering domaisn from their<br>>respective country registries, we will see a shift from those<br>>statistics. The same with addressability, most of Africa's content is<br>>hosted abroad for reasons that have been discussed in other threads.<br><br>Most of these country registries charge more than gTLDs. That <br>doesn't encourage people to register such domains. Addressability is <br>less about than content. I would use it as a way to assess network <br>size and, indirectly, connectivity.<br><br>>Maybe it's time we started consuming our own dog food. In Germany for<br>>example, there ccTLD is the second largest in the world after .com.<br><br>The are currently over 15 million domains registered under <br>.de. DENIC runs its business as a not-for-profit company, for the <br>use and benefit of the whole German Internet Community. Last year it <br>earned around EUR 14,145,000. It costs less than USD 10 to register <br>a .de domain.<br><br>Regards,<br>-sm <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>AfrICANN mailing list<br>AfrICANN@afrinic.net<br>https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann<br> </body>