<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Dear Boinett,</div><div><br></div><div>.ke is the best way to identify Kenya to investors just like .uk for UK and .ZA for South Africa. There is no better international outlook for Kenya than our identity.</div><div><br></div><div>So you are in the right direction. Get a .ke</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Sammy</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Norman Boinett <<a href="mailto:nboinett@gmail.com">nboinett@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Tuesday, October 9, 2012 7:58 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> <<a href="mailto:buruchara@mac.com">buruchara@mac.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [kictanet] [Skunkworks] New KenInvest Website<br></div><div><br></div>Thanks all for the feedback and suggestions. I will surely follow up on .<a href="http://co.ke">co.ke</a> domain issue. The gTLD has been in use for a while. We had an argument on the same with our colleagues and the decision to use the gTLD was based on the argument that we have an international audience and we needed to give the IPA an international outlook and presence (you will notice that most Investment Promotion Agencies IPA's use gTLD's not ccTLD's) however there is absolutely no harm in obtaining a ccTLD to compliment the gTLD.<div><br></div><div>Have a great day.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Barrack Otieno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" target="_blank">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I agree Ali, i just hope we can find a way of making .ke a default id for all state corporations , i think Ken Invest would be a good starting point for promoting proudly .ke which seems to be in high demand in the high seas compared to home ( i don't have facts though). I hope Norman will consider my humble request :-)) who knows what the ripple effect of <a href="http://keninvest.co.ke" target="_blank">keninvest.co.ke</a> would mean to the local registrar community, after all we are a brand, the best runners, the best tea, the best groundnuts, the best milk (Tuzo Sirkal) the best Sugar (Mumias Ingwe), need i say more.<br><br>Have a great day<br><br>Best Regards<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Ali Hussein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Barrack</div><div><br></div><div>Some things may not be so obvious unfortunately. I think all government departments and agencies must be compelled to have .ke as the default domain. Even if they own .coms (which they may have to buy for defensive purposes to prevent cyber squatters and domainers from hijacking the names. </div><div><div><br><div>Ali Hussein</div><div><br></div><div>+254 773/713 601113</div><div><br></div></div><div>Sent from my iPhone®</div></div><div><div><div><br>On Oct 9, 2012, at 5:51 AM, Barrack Otieno <<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" target="_blank">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Norman,<br><br>I would wish to congratulate you for the good job but i am really serious about my question, i would like to understand why a state arm is not using a .ke? is it that its not catchy enough ?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:06 PM, daniel gitau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danmac.daniel@gmail.com" target="_blank">danmac.daniel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Norman,</p><p>Great stuff going on there..shud also put an option of posting/tracking projects.</p><p>Danmac</p><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Oct 8, 2012 3:02 PM, "Norman Boinett" <<a href="mailto:nboinett@gmail.com" target="_blank">nboinett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>
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