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<div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><a name="_MailOriginal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Dear
colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></a></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">On
22 May 2012, ICANN will reopened the new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) application
process following the earlier technical glitch that you will no doubt be aware
of. This was a welcome development as there was substantial debate around
whether applications were materially affected.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">The
dotAfrica gTLD is one of the new domains that have attracted a number of
applicants and there is on-going interest in both the actual application process
and how the continent will benefit from this new geographic name, which will
allow Africa to be uniquely-identified online.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial">Bearing the above in mind, we would like to invite you to join the dotAfrica
community mailing list for up-to-the-minute news about Africa`s new gTLD bid
for .Africa top level domain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial">We also plan for the mailing list to go beyond discussing only
dotAfrica, so that it includes larger African Internet and ICT issues. For this
reason, we encourage you to subscribe and help make this list representative of
the African Internet community. You don’t want to miss out on this opportunity
to be in the African ICT loop!<br>
<br>
Please join our mailing list to participate in this community-driven approach
to information. By joining our mailing list you will have access to, amongst
others, dotAfrica announcements, requests for comments or advice<br>
from the community and you will also be among the first to receive notifications
of upcoming events.<br>
<br>
Thanking you in advance for your support and just a quick reminder that you can
follow the dotAfrica campaign </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial">on Facebook (facebook/africandomain) and Twitter
(twitter.com/africandomain).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><br>
Kind regards<br>
<br>
dotAfrica PR Team<br>
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