<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Ali,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thank you for bringing this to our attention. This second level domain is warmly welcomed. As a .ke champion, this is indeed exciting.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Asante Abdalla and team.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div><div><br></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Kind Regards<br><br></span></font></div><b><font size="2"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Keith Andere </span><br></span></font></b><br><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Tel: +254 722 565212<br></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Twitter: @AndereKE</span></span></div></div></span><span></span></div><br><div dir="ltr"><span><br></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green">Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.<br><br><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B1T3ZkIno-ExTVFGenptSkxtUHM&revid=0B1T3ZkIno-ExdHRJKzFiL1Q5amU0cU1WMVphQ01Jc0tyay9ZPQ" width="420" height="149"><br></span></b><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.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="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Dear all</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">KeNIC has just announced the opening up of the .ke 2nd level domains.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">What does this really mean?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Simply put for example is that your domain can now be <a href="http://www.wanjiku.ke" target="_blank">www.wanjiku.ke</a> instead of <a href="http://www.wanjiku.co.ke" target="_blank">www.wanjiku.co.ke</a>. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">This is huge and the Registrar and user community have been agitating for this for many years.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Kudos to the KeNIC team led by Abdalla Omari and the Board. This was way overdue.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">So from a commercial perspective these are interesting times:-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="http://fa.ke" target="_blank">fa.ke</a> anyone? :-)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Or how about <a href="http://ca.ke" target="_blank">ca.ke</a>; Ni.ke, Co.ke? <a href="http://ma.ke" target="_blank">ma.ke</a>? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">#LetTheGamesBegin!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div><div class="m_-5578259375230116525gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">Ali
Hussein</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">Principal</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><b>Hussein & Associates</b></font></p><font size="2">

</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>T<font size="2">el: +254 713 60<font size="2">1113</font></font><br></span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">

</span></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Skype: abu-jomo</span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/<wbr>alihkassim</a></span><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"></span></a></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black">13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing,</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"></span></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black">Chiromo Road, Westlands,</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"></span></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black">Nairobi, Kenya.</span></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span><br><font size="1">Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with.</font></span></span></font><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";font-size:11pt"></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span>

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