Comments on: Top-Level Domain .Africa Becomes Object Of Bitter Fight http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/11/03/top-level-domain-africa-becomes-object-of-bitter-fight/ Original news and analysis on international IP policy Wed, 22 May 2013 20:41:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: ThomasK http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/11/03/top-level-domain-africa-becomes-object-of-bitter-fight/comment-page-1/#comment-5567198 ThomasK Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:37:20 +0000 http://www.ip-watch.org/?p=24325#comment-5567198 Top-Level Domain .Africa Becomes Object Of Bitter Fight
I am surprised you found DCA comments as “undermining” Uniform’s Application. I call it screw ups and a hastily put together proposal by UNIFORUM that violates ICANN gTLD guidelines in more ways than one, plus a straightforward corruption at the AUC.

Surprisingly, despite that DCA’s proposal is the most compelling and in the public interest, you think “the chances for the DotConnectAfrica TLD are slim at best as the competing application from UniForum SA (NPC), trading as Registry Africa, is officially supported by the African Union”.

Your suggestion stipulates that ICANN will bypass a violation of its own gtld guidelines just to accommodate African government wishes for an illegitimate application filed by UNIFORUM? That did not happen in Dakar when AUC requested to reserve the name against the new gTLD guideline,so I do not see it happen again.

The slim chance is really for UNiforum to get a .africa!

]]> By: Too much information: Links for week ending 9 November | The Barefoot Technologist http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/11/03/top-level-domain-africa-becomes-object-of-bitter-fight/comment-page-1/#comment-5550722 Too much information: Links for week ending 9 November | The Barefoot Technologist Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:00:57 +0000 http://www.ip-watch.org/?p=24325#comment-5550722 [...] Africa: Top–Level Domain becomes object of bitter fight IP Watch report on two companies battling for the right to control the registration of website domain names ending in “.africa” (as opposed to “.com,” “.co.uk,” “.org” etc). The international body tasked with assigning such rights, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has received reports that the African Union Task Force on the .africa domain, which has endorsed one of the company’s application to control it, suffers from conflict of interest issues. [...]

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