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<body><div style="font-family:Arial;">This sounds good. The challenge will be protecting the rights of those already registered in the 3rd level, to avoid them having another expense and effort making new, defensive registrations.<br></div>
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<div>On Thu, Jun 29, 2017, at 11:23 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Dear all<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif;">KeNIC has just announced the opening up of the .ke 2nd level domains.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif;">What does this really mean?<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Simply put for example is that your domain can now be <a href="http://www.wanjiku.ke">www.wanjiku.ke</a> instead of <a href="http://www.wanjiku.co.ke">www.wanjiku.co.ke</a>. <br></div>
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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif;">This is huge and the Registrar and user community have been agitating for this for many years.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Kudos to the KeNIC team led by Abdalla Omari and the Board. This was way overdue.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif;">So from a commercial perspective these are interesting times:-<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><a href="http://fa.ke">fa.ke</a> anyone? :-)<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Or how about <a href="http://ca.ke">ca.ke</a>; Ni.ke, Co.ke? <a href="http://ma.ke">ma.ke</a>? <br></div>
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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif;">#LetTheGamesBegin!<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Regards<br></div>
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<div><div><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-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;"><b><span class="font" style='font-family:georgia," serif"'><span class="size" style="font-size:small">Ali
Hussein</span></span></b><br></p><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;"><b><span class="font" style='font-family:georgia," serif"'><span class="size" style="font-size:small">Principal</span></span></b><br></p><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;"><span class="font" style='font-family:georgia," serif"'><span class="size" style="font-size:small"><b>Hussein & Associates</b></span></span><br></p><div style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="size" style="font-size:small"></span><br></div>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;"><span class="size" style="font-size:small"> </span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;"><span class="size" style="font-size:small"><span class="font" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>T<span class="size" style="font-size:small">el: +254 713 60<span class="size" style="font-size:small">1113</span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;"><span class="size" style="font-size:small"><span class="font" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span><span></span></span></span><br></p><div style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="size" style="font-size:small"><span class="font" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span></span><br></div>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;"><span class="size" style="font-size:small"><span class="font" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Skype: abu-jomo</span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;"><span class="size" style="font-size:small"><span class="font" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim"><span class="colour" style="color:windowtext"></span></a></span></span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;"><span class="size" style="font-size:small"><span class="font" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span></span><br></p><p style="background-image:initial;font-size:small;margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-repeat:initial;"><span class="size" style="font-size:small"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="font" style="font-family:georgia"><span class="size" style="font-size:9pt">13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing,</span></span></span><span class="font" style="font-family:arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:9.5pt"></span></span></span><br></p><p style="background-image:initial;font-size:small;margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-repeat:initial;"><span class="size" style="font-size:small"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="font" style="font-family:georgia"><span class="size" style="font-size:9pt">Chiromo Road, Westlands,</span></span></span><span class="font" style="font-family:arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:9.5pt"></span></span></span><br></p><p style="background-image:initial;font-size:small;margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;background-repeat:initial;"><span class="size" style="font-size:small"><span class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="font" style="font-family:georgia"><span class="size" style="font-size:9pt">Nairobi, Kenya.</span></span></span></span><br></p><div style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="size" style="font-size:small"><span class="font" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span><br><span class="size" style="font-size:x-small">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.</span></span></span></span><span class="font" style='font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"'><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"></span> <span class="font" style='font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"'></span></div>
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