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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: ColfaxRegular, 'AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731069', 'Nimbus Sans TW01', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 15.600000000000001px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 17px; font-family: Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light'; line-height: 25px;">One notable difference from South Africa that is emerging in the Kenyan case is that the Kenyan regulator intends to assume its regulatory oversight over the dot.KE name space. This is as per the amended, Kenya Information Communication Act, 2009 and as recently emphasized in a post to the <a href="http://www.kictanet.or.ke/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(41, 171, 226);">KICTAnet list</a> by the CCK communication manager, Mr. Christopher Wambua. </p></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: ColfaxRegular, 'AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731069', 'Nimbus Sans TW01', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 15.600000000000001px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 17px; font-family: Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light'; line-height: 25px;">It will be interesting to see what role KENIC will be left to play, once this de-facto, self-regulation practice is taken away.</p></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: ColfaxRegular, 'AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731069', 'Nimbus Sans TW01', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 15.600000000000001px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 17px; font-family: Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light'; line-height: 25px;">In yet another posting to the KICTAnet list, Prof. Jimmy Macharia, the current KENIC Chairman envisions KENIC retaining its administrative control over both the ccTLD and the Second Level Domains. This is quite different from the South African case where the second level domain management and administration is outsourced to different entities.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 15.600000000000001px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 17px; font-family: Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light'; line-height: 25px;"><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/Kenyas-Internet-Domain-Set-for-a-Shakeup-Part-II/-/1959700/2172042/-/kj8tmsz/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/Kenyas-Internet-Domain-Set-for-a-Shakeup-Part-II/-/1959700/2172042/-/kj8tmsz/-/index.html</a></p></div> </div></body>
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