[kictanet] Google's Antics on Mocality

[James Mbugua]

Clearly, Stefan and his team turned out to be a bit more sophisticated
than Google would have expected.

The "Sting code" was a master stroke.

Inevitably, the spot light will now turn to Google EA and Kenic who
are responsible for assigning country level domain names here.

Google is an advertising firm not a collector of annual fees and
Sh2000 per year seems like way out of its core business. So I suspect,
a third party with possibly an agreement with Kenic, who actually
collect the registration fees, is responsible.

To pre-empt the inevitable, Kenic should also come out with a definite
statement on this issue!

James Mbugua


On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:01 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Matunda Nyanchama
> <mnyanchama at aganoconsulting.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I am wondering what Google's aswer is to this clear case of dirty tricks.
>
>
>
>
> Their initial reaction was :
>
> 'We were mortified to learn that a team of people working on a Google
> project improperly used Mocality’s data and misrepresented our
> relationship with Mocality to encourage customers to create new
> websites. We’ve already unreservedly apologised to Mocality. We’re
> still investigating exactly how this happened, and as soon as we have
> all the facts, we’ll be taking the appropriate action with the people
> involved.'
>
> Am sure we will hear more soon.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
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