.Africa gTLD

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Good Bye .DOTAFRICA A significant landmark Victory in the battle for .Africa gTLD

November 02, 2012, Toronto, Ontario Canada: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has officially approved the Change Request made by DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust) for its .Africa (DotAfrica) gTLD Domain Name String application.  The ICANN update can… Continue Reading…

ICANN Africa Strategy

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The “ICANN Africa Strategy” Is Not the Same as the ‘African Agenda’ :Exclusive Commentary for CircleID by Sophia Bekele, DCA Executive Director

The ICANN-45 International meeting of the ICANN Global Community in Toronto, Canada provided an opportunity for the unveiling of the initial draft of the ICANN Africa Strategy, an episode that will always be remembered as a landmark moment which signaled… Continue Reading…

IBCA initiative

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DotConnectAfrica Participates in ICANN 45 Toronto Unveils new IBCA Initiative at ICANN Public Forum

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DCA Represented by its Back-End Registry Partner CentraNic, at ICANN 45 Toronto PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 23, 2012 – DCA Trust used the opportunity afforded by the presence of the entire ICANN Global Community gathered at… Continue Reading…

ICANN-45

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DotConnectAfrica ICANN-45 Toronto Public Forum Comment on The Multi-Stakeholder Model & the presentation of the initial draft of the ICANN Africa Strategy

PUBLIC FORUM COMMENT SUBMITTED BY DCA TRUST (This is a complete unabridged version of the document. Shorter version was read out at the Public Forum Meeting due to constraint of time.) Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012 Subject: General Comment on the ICANN Multi-Stakeholder  Model & DCA’s… Continue Reading…

Achieving Women

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CONNECTING AFRICA to the World Web “Achieving women” The Premium Standard Daily, East Africa

  PRLog (Press Release) Oct 10, 2012 – Nairobi Kenya:  The Standard Group, one of premium private newspapers in East Africa, profiles Sophia Bekele as an “Achieving Women”, calling upon her as “The Global Telecommunication policy Leader”. Taking stock of her decade of professional activities and  achievements,… Continue Reading…

Wikipedia

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Sabotage of our Wikipedia sites

PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 01, 2012 – We wish to inform the global Internet public that our Wikipedia pages have been willfully and maliciously attacked. The Wikipedia pages containing entries for DotConnectAfrica http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/DotConnectAfrica .africa , which was attributed… Continue Reading…

UNIFORUM ZA Central Registry

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DotConnectAfrica Trust Official Public Comments for the ICANN Evaluation Panel on the Application Submitted by UNIFORUM ZA Central Registry for the .Africa Generic Top-Level Domain Name

COMMENT SUBMITTED BY DOTCONNECTAFRICA TRUST on The New gTLD Application Comments Forum Pursuant to Section 1.1.2.3 (‘Comment Period’) of the new gTLD Applicant’s Guidebook that allows public comments to be posted on any submitted application during the Application Comment Period,… Continue Reading…

registrants

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DCA Trust puts .africa New gTLD Users and Registrants First

PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 10, 2012 – Following the recent ICANN Reveal, one clear fact that emerged from the published parts of DotConnectAfrica’ s application, was DCA’s very affordable unit domain name registration price for standard domains in the… Continue Reading…

News

Rejoinder to TechCentral SouthAfrica ‘Bizarre twist in .africa tale’

To: The Editor-in-Chief, Tech Central SouthAfrica     We thank you for your recent article (Re: ‘Bizarre twist in .africa tale’ located athttp://www.techcentral.co.za/bizarre-twist-in-africa-tale/34200/). Our estimation is that the story written by Mr. Craig Wilson and published on your web site… Continue Reading…

ITWebAfrica

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DCA’s Commentary on ITWebAfrica Story The 185,000 Misunderstanding on .africa

To: The Editor-in-Chief, ITWebAfrica   We thank you for your recent article (Re: ‘The $185,000 dotafrica internet domain name ‘misunderstanding’?’ located at http://www.itwebafrica.com/internet/334-africa/229830-the-185000-dotafrica-internet-domain-name-misunderstanding). Even though your published story written by Mr. Gareth Van Zyl is quite balanced, we wish to use… Continue Reading…

Alice

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Alice Munyau: trying to legitimize a massive cover-up and Fraud

Misrepresenting a non-Community TLD application as the official AUC-sponsored .AFRICA gTLD application for the African Community Alice – You should resign from any official government positions and all Committee posts that you presently occupy including the ICANN GAC In the… Continue Reading…

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