<div dir="ltr">Hi Michele et al<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Michele Neylon - Blacknight <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michele@blacknight.com" target="_blank">michele@blacknight.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Do you mean wholesale price or retail?<br></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Unimportant question.. not all these domains have "wholesale" rates... especially not for foreigners. Shall we say that as an ISP/web creator/domain reseller we look for the "cheapest" that we can find that provide registration services only (i.e. we do wish to use our own name servers, etc)</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-IE" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_432954434559185150WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">And either way it’s not just Africa<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The Latin American market is as bad if not worse, with many ccTLDs in the region looking for $50+ per year.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, in this case I'm not trying to assist Latin Americans since I live in Africa and I want to support my African colleagues... I think that we've all learned that it's not helpful to close domains or wrap them up in bureaucracy and high annual costs... I think by enabling people (globally) to easily register new ones it's simply broad based economic and social development opportunities that seem to be missed by these operators. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-IE" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_432954434559185150WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. There are many registry service providers that are helping or trying to help African cctlds... even in Africa... this is no excuse for failure!</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-IE" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_432954434559185150WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My clients provide service to African countries. They travel there and assist to build things, fix things, help people, doctors, engineers, teachers, etc.. </div><div><br></div><div>They think that buying their domain names is a way to show commitment to them. Unfortunately I need to explain this is a false view. </div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Alan</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>