<p>Great history lesson there for some of us... :-)</p>
<p>Sent on the run,<br>
Please excuse errors & ommissions!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 21, 2012 10:17 AM, "Odhiambo Washington" <<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com">odhiambo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><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 Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Rebecca Wanjiku <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com" target="_blank">rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div><span>Apparently Kenic has issued termination letters to all employees, what will the PS increase control over if the organization has no employees? Read more...</span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div><span><a href="http://www.wanjiku.co.ke/2012/08/kenic-ceo-fires-first-salvo-at-govt-terminates-all-employees/" target="_blank">http://www.wanjiku.co.ke/2012/08/kenic-ceo-fires-first-salvo-at-govt-terminates-all-employees/</a><br>
</span></div><div> </div><div>Tel. 254 720 318 925</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wanjiku.co.ke" target="_blank">wanjiku.co.ke</a><br><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">
<div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Brian Munyao Longwe <<a href="mailto:blongwe@gmail.com" target="_blank">blongwe@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com" target="_blank">rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com</a>
<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Monday, August 20, 2012 12:34 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Ministry seeks more seats at KENIC<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div>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>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Brian<br><br><div><div style="font-size:13.3px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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<img height="1" width="1"></div></div><br><br><div>On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com" target="_blank">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br><div>On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Sammy Buruchara <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:buruchara@me.com" target="_blank">buruchara@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div lang="EN-US"><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">Dear Listers,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><snip></div><div>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">At the dawn of Internet in Kenya, we all relied on Mr. Randy Bush in Oregon USA to register .ke domains.</span></div></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.<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>In this case, McTim, you never registered any .KE domain until KENIC came into being, otherwise you'd know Randy did.<br>
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I remember with Nostalgia those templates we used to send to Randy Bush in the days, and how one would anxiously await his response - yes, because it meant money then! A successful processing of the template was a big issue - you made a small mistake and it would be rejected.<br>
<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br>Nairobi,KE<br>+254733744121/+254722743223<br>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ <br>I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.<br>
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