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