Interview with DCA's Boss,Sophia Bekele

Interview with DCA's Boss,Sophia Bekele

Interview with DCA's Boss,Sophia Bekele Wednesday, 07 December 2011 10:23 Domain News Tweet Share The East African talked with Sophia Bekele,DCA's boss on who will control .africa and many other issues . You can read the intreview after the jump : Q. What is the tussle over the .Africa domain all about? A. The controversy emerged from a plan by the Africa Union Commission to make the .africa, .afrique and .afriqia, all similar name strings unavailable by including it in the list of reserved names, so as to frustrate the hopes of genuine applicants like DCA. The AU had asked Icann to reserve the names. Such a proposal is a disingenuous attempt to afford special legislative protection to the AU to own these strings through a method of bypassing the formal application process of the Icann new generic top level domains (gTLDs). Q. You have openly criticised the AU leadership o...

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