<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Dear Listers,</span><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">What is DRAKE's take on this? haven't seen any comment from them on this issue. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Being a Registrars Association in Kenya was expecting maybe an explanation on how this was arrived at.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">To KeNIC what has led to the frastic change in pricing and why change only Renewal.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 28, 2017 09:58, "Brian Nyali via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>Dear Waudo,</div><div><br></div><div>The number of total domains stands at <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">68,062</span>.</div><div>The breakdown is as below:</div><div><p style="margin:0px;line-height:100%"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:100%"><a href="http://CO.KE" target="_blank">CO.KE</a> 63144</p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:100%"><a href="http://OR.KE" target="_blank">OR.KE</a> 2027</p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:100%"><a href="http://SC.KE" target="_blank">SC.KE</a> 999</p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:100%"><a href="http://AC.KE" target="_blank">AC.KE</a> 766</p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:100%"><a href="http://GO.KE" target="_blank">GO.KE</a> 384</p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:100%"><a href="http://ME.KE" target="_blank">ME.KE</a> 341</p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:100%"><a href="http://NE.KE" target="_blank">NE.KE</a> 200</p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:100%"><a href="http://INFO.KE" target="_blank">INFO.KE</a> 153</p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:100%"><a href="http://MOBI.KE" target="_blank">MOBI.KE</a> 48</p></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="color:#000000">Kind regards,</span><br><span style="color:#333333">Brian M. Nyali.</span></div><div><span style="color:#3366ff"><a href="mailto:brian@kenic.or.ke" target="_blank">brian@kenic.or.ke</a></span></div><div><img src="cid:21c404fc6228d402de2ab8417ca21ecf8208c05d@zimbra"></div></div><br><hr id="m_-8031464379117093522zwchr"><div><b>From: </b>"waudo siganga via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>><br><b>To: </b>"Brian Nyali" <<a href="mailto:brian@kenic.or.ke" target="_blank">brian@kenic.or.ke</a>><br><b>Cc: </b>"waudo siganga" <<a href="mailto:emailsignet@mailcan.com" target="_blank">emailsignet@mailcan.com</a>>, "Josh Kinoti" <<a href="mailto:jkinoti@gmail.com" target="_blank">jkinoti@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, 27 April, 2017 18:10:57<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [kictanet] .Ke Domain Costs<br></div><br><div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:medium" dir="ltr"><div>What are the current registration numbers for .ke?</div>
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<div>On Thu, Apr 27, 2017, at 01:06 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet wrote:</div>
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<div>I'm not surprised by this turn of events.</div>
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<div id="m_-8031464379117093522me04684AppleMailSignature">A little bird told me that the reason behind this change of strategy is simply that Registrars haven't met jointly agreed set targets and hence putting KeNIC in an untenable situation. KeNIC is a critical public resource and it's incumbent on the industry to support its growth.</div>
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<div id="m_-8031464379117093522me04684AppleMailSignature">I've always been against growth by price reduction. Especially in the ccTLD Domain Name Space. The largest ccTLDs include .uk, .co and .de and it's never been about pricing.</div>
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<div id="m_-8031464379117093522me04684AppleMailSignature">Back to the drawing board KeNIC and Drake?<br>
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On 26 Apr 2017, at 8:09 PM, Odhiambo Washington via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://eacdirectory.co.ke/ke-renewal-price-change.php" target="_blank">https://eacdirectory.co.ke/ke-<wbr>renewal-price-change.php</a></div>
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<div class="m_-8031464379117093522me04684gmail_quote">On 25 April 2017 at 22:50, Josh Kinoti via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>></span> wrote:
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<div>Has the registry abandoned the campaign to make the .ke pricing competitive?</div>
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