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New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Out of approximately </span><span
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7 are based and operate in Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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normal">Internet Solutions (IS) <span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>based in South Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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normal">Kheweul.com is based in Senegal primarily targeting the
francophone region
in Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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normal">AfriRegister based in Burundi <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;font-weight:
normal">Ghana dot com a parent of the first internet service
provider of Ghana
NCS. Seems to operate primarily in Ghana. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;font-weight:
normal">Genious Communications is based in Morocco <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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normal">Diamatrix also based in South <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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normal">Web4Africa based in Ghana<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span
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EN-GB">ICANN is exploring strategies and ideas to help promote the
DNS industry in developing regions and is seeking comments on this
report (</span><span
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EN-GB">(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/accreditation/dns-underserved-14may14-en.pdf">http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/accreditation/dns-underserved-14may14-en.pdf</a>),
which will be used to develop a strategy to address the current
challenges. <br>
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Comment period closes June 30th. <br>
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Alice<br>
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EN-GB"></span>(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/accreditation/dns-underserved-14may14-en.pdf">http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/accreditation/dns-underserved-14may14-en.pdf</a>)<br>
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