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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Alan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Do you mean wholesale price or retail?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">And either way it’s not just Africa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The Latin American market is as bad if not worse, with many ccTLDs in the region looking for $50+ per year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Also, if you look at the African ccTLDs there are still quite a few that don’t offer any level of automation or a proper registrar system so it’s hard to see how they’d scale.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">But why do you want them to buy African domains? A domain by itself is of no value. If you are trying to encourage content then it’s a very different conversation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Mr Michele Neylon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Alan Levin <alan@futureperfect.co.za><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"africann@afrinic.net" <africann@afrinic.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday 16 November 2017 at 09:52<br>
<b>To: </b>"africann@afrinic.net" <africann@afrinic.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[AfrICANN-discuss] AfriDNS - Internet governance at the local level<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Hi,</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">I've been studying African cctld for many years. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">The cost of registering an African cctld in Uganda / Nigeria / Ghana / Botswana / Angola, etc appears to remain totally out of kilter with the global market rates.
To buy a .ke for a local is around USD6, but for a foreigner it's >USD17 and they appear to be one of the cheapest. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">In South Africa a domain goes for less than USD5, and they are available globally at the same price. We have over 1.2m registrations... significantly more than any
other African cctld... <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">How can I encourage our clients to buy African cctlds when there is so much more to chose from nowadays? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Sincerely<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Alan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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