McTim,<div><br></div><div>On this one, you are wrong (for the first time) :)</div><div><br></div><div>Besides running primary and secondary nameservers for .KE .... Randy (via PSG) also handled all registrations for .KE (and maintained the root database for the cctld).</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Sammy Buruchara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:buruchara@me.com" target="_blank">buruchara@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dear Listers,<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><snip></div><div class="im">
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">At the dawn of Internet in Kenya, we all relied on Mr. Randy Bush in Oregon USA to register .ke domains.</span></p></div>


</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>I don't think Randy ever actually registered domains for .ke (or anyone).</div><div><br></div><div>IIRC, he offered (via PSG) free Secondary name services to many ccTLD that did not have the werewithal to run secondary services for themselves.</div>
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<div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel<br>



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