[kictanet] Ni.ke hits the Kshs 1 billion (or $9.7m) mark in the premium domain auction of the .ke second level domain launch (Warning: This could be #FakeNews :-) )

[Odhiambo Washington]

On 29 December 2017 at 13:32, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Well put Ali. Registering nike.co.ke or Coca-Cola.co.ke is cyber
> squatting, and that has been handled well by KENIC's by laws. On the other
> hand, ni.ke is not cyber squatting.
>
> Brian, Ali, Abdala et-al, DNS speaking, I don't see how we can sell the A
> record of co.ke while the eventual owner will not have control over the
> globaly known canonical name www. A lot of traffic would be lost between
> the two different entities. The only solution would be for them to federate
> among each other. That is an interesting problem.
>
> @collins, No, KENIC did not sell www. KENIC is not involved in selling
> domains, (apart from the auction :-) ). Domains are owned on first come
> basis. If you register areba.co.ke, KENIC will not even notice.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>

:-) They will not even notice the money that comes in? :-)


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