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September 22, 2017
DCA Trust legal victory Los Angeles, California, USA, September 13, 2017. DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust), the African based promoter of the Yes2DotAfrica Campaign and principal applicant for the .Africa Internet new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Extension scored an important victory… Continue Reading…
November 15, 2016
Update: DotConnectAfrica at a High Level Discussion on Africa at the EurAfrican Forum in Portugal; Global IG Policy – ITU; Miss.Africa App Developers graduate, Award Ceremony, Kenya Thought Leadership: Bekele Shares Key Issues and Challenges on Africa’s Innovation ad IT… Continue Reading…
August 16, 2016
Discovering Africa Network featured Ms. Sophia Bekele the Founder and Executive Director of DotConnectAfrica Group on the record of “Influential People That See The Potential Of Africa” along with body of other influential people such as the U.S First Family… Continue Reading…
March 5, 2016
DotConnectAfrica Update: Status on our .Africa gTLD application NAIROBI, Kenya – March 5, 2016 – PRLog — A UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – WESTERN DIVISION ruling has granted an Interim Relief for DotConnectAfrica by issuing a… Continue Reading…
July 13, 2015
New York and Los Angeles, July 10, 2015: In a landmark decision, an Independent Review Process (IRP), at the International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) has ruled that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has violated its… Continue Reading…
January 22, 2014
The Arbitration Process between DCA Trust and ICANN (‘DCA Trust vs. ICANN’) shall be governed by the International Dispute Resolution Procedures of the ICDR and the Supplementary Procedures for ICANN IRP Process. PRLog (Press Release) – Jan. 22, 2014 –… Continue Reading…
November 11, 2013
Ms. Sophia Bekele, Executive Director of DotConnectAfrica, spoke of a way forward for the “.Africa” project during the opening panel discussions and subseqent launch of the East Africa “dotafrica” campaign Our campaign theme mirrors the theme used for nations reborn,… Continue Reading…
July 6, 2013
DCA’s .Africa application passed all the Evaluation Panels including the technical, operational and financial evaluation criteria, but the Geographic Names Panel Evaluation for the application was not completed. PRLog (Press Release) – Jul. 5, 2013 – Update on Initial Evaluation… Continue Reading…
May 30, 2013
Washington D.C., USA, May 30, 2013 – Following the ICANN-46 International gathering that took place in Beijing China, the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) body of ICANN also met and issued a Communiqué dated April 11, 2013 which contained… Continue Reading…
May 27, 2013
http://prlog.org/12143097 March 20, 2013, Mauritius, Port-Louis, Sophia Bekele, Executive Director of DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust), has been named as one of the ’50 African Trailblazers under 50‘, by the influential New African magazine UK, a member of the IC Publications… Continue Reading…
May 17, 2013
In its response to the ICANN Board, DCA Trust disagreed with the GAC Objection Advice. PRLog (Press Release) – May 16, 2013 – DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust), the contending applicant that submitted an independent bid for the .Africa new generic… Continue Reading…
April 17, 2013
DCA’s application for .Africa new gTLD received an ICANN GAC Policy Advice Objection which the organization hopes to resolve by following the due process provisions within the ICANN new gTLD Program. PRLog (Press Release) – Apr. 17, 2013 – The… Continue Reading…
November 4, 2012
.Africa gTLD Victory 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… Continue Reading…
November 2, 2012
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September 11, 2012
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…
July 30, 2012
Murphy DCA believes only ICANN should decide on DotAfrica (.africa) Dear Mr. Murphy, Our attention has been drawn to your recent Blogged article (Re: “DotConnectAfrica – disconnected from reality?” – retrieved from http://domainincite.com/9802-dotconnectafrica-disconnected-from-reality). We would like to begin by saying how grateful… Continue Reading…
July 27, 2012
The annual East African Internet Governance Forum (EAIGF) event was held recently at the Jacaranda Hotel Nairobi. It was preceded by the Kenya IGF that was held at the same venue a fortnight ago. The meeting was attended by many… Continue Reading…
November 17, 2011
DotConnectAfrica ICANN-42 Briefing “We want to achieve a Gold Standard in terms of conflicts and ethics practices,” said Mr. Steve Crocker, Chair of the ICANN Board. “Specifically we are working on a system which will lay out how Directors interested in specific new… Continue Reading…
The DotConnectAfrica (DCA) group is a Pan-African organization that was formed with an objective to advance education in the digital economy in the African society. In connection with this objective, to also benefit the general African public access to Internet resources including assisting our stakeholders with their digital transformation and branding Africa on the Internet.
Post its inception, DCA has progressively adopted a very unique integrative model of Internet-centered digital products and services encompassing web related services, to include eCommerce, DNS businesses, mobile applications along with digital marketing services on an integrated digital social media platform of Internet of Things (IoTs) to service its clients and stakeholders.
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