<div dir="ltr">Hi Ali and Waudo, <div><br></div><div>I agree, in the best interest of supporting the protection of Intellectual Property (IP) incentives should be given.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards, </div><div><br></div><div>Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Admin CampusCiti 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="auto"><div>Waudo</div><div id="m_-5054631752498614539AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_-5054631752498614539AppleMailSignature">Good point. Most companies will need to do this anyway as they do with other ccTLDs and gTLDs. It's called protecting ones brand..</div><div id="m_-5054631752498614539AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_-5054631752498614539AppleMailSignature">Maybe KeNIC can look at substantial discounts for personalized/vanity domains? <br><br><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">+254 0713 601113 / 0770906375</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></div><div><span class=""><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.<wbr>com/in/alihkassim</a><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"></span></a></span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"></p></span><font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Blog: <a href="http://www.alyhussein.com/" target="_blank">www.alyhussein.com</a></span><br></font></div><div><span><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought".  ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On 30 Jun 2017, at 9:54 AM, waudo siganga via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>




<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>
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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" target="_blank">www.wanjiku.ke</a> instead of <a href="http://www.wanjiku.co.ke" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">fa.ke</a> anyone? :-)<br></div>
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<div 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>? <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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