<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:20px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.7)"><font face="georgia, serif" style="">Ni.ke hits the Kshs 1 billion (or $9.7m) mark in the premium domain auction of the .ke second level domain launch. This is probably an all time record of any ccTLD (Country Code Second Level Domain). </font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:20px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.7)"><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><br></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:20px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.7)"><font face="georgia, serif" style="">For a minute I thought this was an error. And it could still be.. :-) </font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:20px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.7)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br style="box-sizing:inherit"></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:20px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.7)"><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://auction.kenic.or.ke/item/19203406/nike">http://auction.kenic.or.ke/item/19203406/nike</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:20px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.7)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br style="box-sizing:inherit"></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:20px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.7)"><font face="georgia, serif">If this turns out to be true it would be a world record and focus the world alot more on Kenya.. Hold on! We are onto a wild ride! :-)</font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:20px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.7)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:20px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.7)"><font face="georgia, serif"></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><font face="georgia, serif">​At the very least this is great PR and a Marketing Coup.</font></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:20px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.7)"><font face="georgia, serif"></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:20px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.7)"><font face="georgia, serif"></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><font face="georgia, serif">@Abdalla and Team - Well done for putting KENIC on the map!</font></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:20px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.7)"><font face="georgia, serif"></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:20px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.7)"><font face="georgia, serif"></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><font face="georgia, serif">Regards​</font></div><p></p><div class="gmail_default" style=""><b style=""><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><b style=""><font size="2">Ali
Hussein</font></b><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Principal</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>Hussein & Associates</b></font></p><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">

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

</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="georgia, serif">Skype: abu-jomo</font></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/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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