[kictanet] kictanet Digest, Vol 28, Issue 40

Barrack Otieno otieno.barrack at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 13:40:57 EAT 2007


Interesting idea bill, Michuki what does it take to have .ea?
Regards


On 6/20/07, kictanet-request at kictanet.or.ke <kictanet-request at kictanet.or.ke>
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>   1. Re: www.east-africa.ea (Bill Kagai)
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> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:00:25 +0300
> From: "Bill Kagai" <mediacorp.research at mediacorp.co.ke>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] www.east-africa.ea
> To: "Kenya ICT Action Network - KICTANet" <kictanet at kictanet.or.ke>
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> Perhaps what is important is to ensure we do not get tangled in
> logistics and endless debate over the [.ea] domain with Melila and
> Ceuta. An alternative can be an ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 extension [.eac]
> for [.EastAfricaCommunity] which I have checked is still unclaimed.
>
> I do not hold any copyright to the [.eac] or [.ea] idea so if KICTANET
> or any of its members can run with it, it will be beneficial to
> me...because I will reach a bigger market for my stock information
> subscription without the public fret that [.ke] is taking all the
> business in East Africa.
>
> Michuki...I therefore see [.eac] as an aggressive  business strategy
> complimenting [.ke], [.tz] etc and not as competition.
>
> Alice...If KICTANET knows some influential people at the East Africa
> Community Secretariat in Arusha, maybe they can help get things into
> second gear with ICANN??
>
> Bill
>
> On 6/20/07, Michuki Mwangi <michuki at kenic.or.ke> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > It has taken the .EU over 4 years to have it in place. Its taken
> > similary .ASIA the equivalent to have theirs in place.
> > .EA is entered into the IS0-3166-1 standards table and reserved as the
> > country code for Ceuta and Melilla.
> >
> > Hence for ICANN to issue a two letter code, it has to be in the
> > ISO-3166-1 table.
> >
> > There are other requirements that also have to be met for the process to
> > be completed. It requires intense collaboration amongst members of the
> > community to see the application approved by ICANN.
> >
> > For whats it worth its some discussions that we have been having amongst
> > ourselves and there are challenges to this effect.
> >
> > First line of thought is are we at a point ready to thrown in
> > competition to our national ccTLDs?.
> >
> > If to compare with the EU, most ccTLD's within the region are well
> > established with over 100,000 domain names - hence very financially
> > stable. In our region, none of the 3 ccTLDs are above 10,000 domains.
> > Can the ccTLDs compete with the .EA or its equivalent?.
> >
> > Or is the thinking line that we may eventually move to a political
> > federation and hence no need of the .KE, .TZ, .UG, .RW, .BI et al.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > Kagwe James wrote:
> > > Anything can change I guess and with the current waves of regional
> > > integrations ICANN may have to reconsider its hard stance on this and
> > > create another classification of regional top level domains (RTLD)
> just
> > > like the CCTLD's, or something like that.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: kictanet-bounces+jkagwe=aforbes.co.ke at kictanet.or.ke
> > > [mailto:kictanet-bounces+jkagwe=aforbes.co.ke at kictanet.or.ke] On
> Behalf
> > > Of Kai Wulff
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 6:58 AM
> > > To: Kagwe James
> > > Subject: Re: [kictanet] www.east-africa.ea
> > >
> > > Well,
> > >
> > > there is .EU .. And take it from me, they are not very organized ..
> > >
> > > Kai
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <jmanthi at gmail.com>
> > > To: <kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 23:00
> > > Subject: Re: [kictanet] www.east-africa.ea
> > >
> > >
> > >> This would be a very good thing and would very  popular with those
> > >> businesses that need to do businesses within EA.
> > >>
> > >> But at those time I think it would be very impossible because ICANN
> > > rules
> > >> basicaaly say that country extensions (EA) can only be given to
> > >> politically organized countries.
> > >>
> > >> My 2 cents.
> > >>
> > >> Joe
> > >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: "Bill Kagai" <mediacorp.research at mediacorp.co.ke>
> > >>
> > >> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:03:29
> > >> To:Joseph Manthi <jmanthi at gmail.com>
> > >> Subject: [kictanet] www.east-africa.ea
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> For those in the know, how feasible is introducing a dot [EA] domain.
> > >> With a lucrative market population of 109 million after adding Rwanda
> > >> and Burundi into East Africa Community...is it possible to have one
> > >> website with a [.ea] domain instead of having 5 websites for [.ke],
> > >> [.ug], [.tz], [.rw] and [.bi]?? And may be soon [.southsudan]??
> > >>
> > >> --
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> > >> Bildad Kagai
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:05:26 -0700 (PDT)
> From: judy okite <judyokite at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [kictanet] OpenSource society
> To: kictanet at kictanet.or.ke
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> Listers, for those in the opensource society and may
> wish to showcase their expertise and network with
> other experts worlwide .....www.linux.conf.au is where
> its all happening. Kind Regards,
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> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:08:55 +0300
> From: Badru Ntege <ntegeb at one2net.co.ug>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] www.east-africa.ea
> To: Kenya ICT Action Network - KICTANet <kictanet at kictanet.or.ke>
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> Michuki Mwangi wrote:
> >
> > Or is the thinking line that we may eventually move to a political
> > federation and hence no need of the .KE, .TZ, .UG, .RW, .BI et al.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> Michuki I think that's the idea I also do believe that we are in the
> early days for all the cctld's and looking at the low penetration
> accross the board i do think they will be able to co-exist.
>
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