[kictanet] kictanet Digest, Vol 107, Issue 26

[Michael Pedersen]

Hi Kariba & List,

Personally I am a fan of .ke domains - that said there are room for 
improvement:

1. DNSSEC rolled out yet ?

2. Frequent Kenic outages - April 2015 still fresh in memory, and erodes 
confidence in technical capacity.

3. "Political stability" around the board of Kenic seems lacking.

..
Mike


On 4/14/16 1:15 AM, DRAKE (Domain Registrars Association of Kenya) via 
kictanet wrote:
> Thanks Waudo,
> To your question. How do I see .ke being impacted by the new gTLDs?
> The answer is purely on value. Right now the user is key because there's
> variety.
> We asked a while back. Why does the Kenyan developer prefer .com .tech
> .consultant .insertnewTLD over .KE
> Here are some responses and how we've dealt with them
> 1. Price - Implemented RRP at 1,000 bob which all DRAKE members have
> implemented
> 2. Purchase procedure - Automation deployed. Current/ New registrars benefit
> from support by the DRAKE technical team that assists at KENIC should the
> need arise
> 3. Security - your .KE will NOT be taken down! (Terms and XXX apply). And
> yes before you quote www.isuhuruinkenya.co.ke I wish to say that was purely
> a registrar issue and we resolved the same. Actually as a .KE owner if you
> don't have dashboard access to your domain do let us know.
> 4. Market - #weareke campaign which launched in 2015 goes bigger and better
> this year. Focussing on Awareness, Demystification and conversion.
>
> A product is only as good as its need and we hope that all this steps will
> boost the tech communities trust in their own brand and will help us build
> it.
> We've ridden on a nationalistic approach and that's gotten us to 56,000. We
> hope based on continuous value addition we'll get to 1,000,000
> 1,000,000 means:
> - 10,000 Jobs
> - GDP relevance
> - Bottom tier empowerment
>
>
> Regards
>
> Kariba
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