DotConnectAfrica Responds to Kevin Murphy’s ‘Nutty’ commentaries – 2...
A flurry of response exchanges were featured in last week between the Domain on industry columnist Kevin Murphy of DomainIncite and DotConnectAfrica (DCA), one of gTLD applicants for .africa. DCA...
View ArticleMr. Sammy Buruchara, Former Chair of DCA Appointed as the Kenyan GAC Advisor...
PRLog (Press Release) – Mar. 14, 2013 – UPPERHILL, Nairobi, Kenya — Mr. Buruchara’s has amassed an invaluable leadership experience in numerous innovation-focused governmental and private sector...
View ArticleUniforum’s attempt to convince ICANN Independent Objector to block...
“For these reasons the IO, who is primarily acting as a “safety net”, does not in principle intend to file an objection on the community ground” The Independent objector has released his findings...
View ArticleEmploying Obsequiousness to Blackmail ICANN over .africa gTLD
“If ICANN were to delegate the gTLD to DCA despite the AUC’s endorsement of UniForum, it is likely that the AUC would lose faith in ICANN and its structures.” The statement above that is part of...
View ArticleImportant Revelation: UniForum Does not have Government support for its...
Africa has 17 applications, 4 being geographic gTLDS, including ” .africa” which according the guidebook: “An application for a string listed as a UNESCO regions or appearing on the “Composition of...
View ArticleGAC Advice on .africa application fails to address vital concerns
Beijing 46th meeting was the platform that was used to post the ICANN GAC advice, which is a requirement of the new gTLD progress for all the new applications. GAC is an advisory body to ICANN. Though...
View ArticleDotConnectAfrica Comments and Questions on .Africa at the ICANN-47 Public...
Below is a complete unabridged version of the comment/questions raised by Ms. Sophia Bekele, Executive Director and CEO of DotConnectAfrica Trust, at the ICANN-47 Public Forum Meeting in Durban,...
View ArticleDotConnectAfrica .Africa Objection treatment at ICANN becomes A Musical Chair...
DotConnectAfrica’s objection application treatment at ICANN and the hands through which the application passed, makes for a very interesting governance case at ICANN. Owing to the highlighted...
View ArticleUniforum’s Pass huge Debacle – Who is to save African Union from itself?
An African internet showdown that has refused to end is looking once again. According to DotConnectAfrica, the Company bidding for .africa alongside the embattled Uniforum ZACR, DotConnectAfrica whose...
View Article.africa.com may just be the domain Africa needs – A wake up call for African...
Africa is a continent is need of a regional online identifier. Recently submissions have been made and the continent managed only 17 applications to own new generic TLD’s to ICANN. From the...
View Article.africa debacle: DotConnectAfrica writes to newly elected African Union...
From the The Reporter Ethiopia DotConnectAfrica (DCA) Trust has written to the new AU leadership raising ethical and accountability issues on how the endorsement process was handled from its inception...
View ArticleDotConnectAfrica demands accountability on over 10 ethical questions on...
DotConnectAfrica (DCA) Trust has written to the new AU leadership raising ethical and accountability issues on how the endorsement process was handled from its inception within the African Union...
View ArticleRwanda: DotConnectAfrica updates Transform Africa 2013 on the .africa Status
“We want the summit to acknowledge our success”. DotConnectAfrica was among over 1,500 delegates that included Seven African Heads of State Ministers and CEO’s of blue chip firms. The summit was...
View ArticleSophia Bekele – Leading Change in Africa: Bloomberg TV
“Fearless, Competitive and Visionary Leaders of our time. We celebrate a new generation of African Women, closing the gender gap and shaping the continent’s political, social and economic landscape”...
View ArticleDotConnectAfrica, first applicant under the New gTLD program to take its case...
DotConnectAfrica in a published Press Release yesterday announced that its Amended Notice of IRP is the latest step towards resolution of the dispute between ICANN and DCA Trust over ICANN Board...
View ArticleFailed ARC come back to reclaim .africa as ZACR?
Latest reports on the unlikely status of Uniforum have emerged showing just how far the organization is going through continuous metamorphosis in a desperate move to take the reins of the controversial...
View ArticleDotConnectAfrica’s dotafrica registry partner CentralNic Signs Agreement with...
CentralNic signed a deal with Domain Venture Partners as stated in the press release below. Central Nic is a publicly traded company on the London Aim, the stock is up about 2.4 % to 84.5 pence. Domain...
View ArticleICANN signs .africa Registry Agreement with ZACR negligent of the IRP...
ICANN has on Monday 24 2014 signed a registry agreement with the ZA Central Registry NPC trading as Registry.Africa to operates the .africa top-level domain. The agreement comes even as...
View ArticleICANN’s credibility questioned after the rush to sign .africa contract before...
The recent ICANN 49 meeting in Singapore saw Akram Atallah, president of ICANN’s Global Domains Division (GDD) and Lucky Masilela, CEO of ZA Central Registry (ZACR) participate in a symbolic signing...
View ArticleSophia thanks GNSO on Unanimous call for ICANN accountability, Seeks to...
The Founder and CEO of DotConnectAfrica Trust fired back a written response on CircleID – an ICANN related industry opinion blog to clarify to a statement made by ICANN’s CEO at a press conference to...
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