Re: .africa gTLD

[Kevin Brown <kevinbr@netcomm.ie>]

At 0:13 +0300 21/1/97, Tierno S. Bah wrote:

Tiernos,

IANA, according to Perry Metzger ( as IANA never replies on its behalf on
this issue) only issue ISO TLDs to countries, or soveriegn bodies.
Therefore you must sue the Government of each country to get the domain
back. IANA have nothing to do with delagations, once they occur.

IANA do not seem to care about ISO TLDs. There is a seperate policy for
.com etc and ISO TLDs. I am accused of being repititive regarding this
issue, but I have been waiting nearly a year for IANA even acknowledge that
there is an issue here.

Certainly the IAHC have refused to look at this. All is well in the state
of Denmark....

The IAHC process is tilted towards Western Countries, and people with
money. Hence the obsessive focus on Trademark issues. Forget the basic need
for small poor countries to get Internet access.

The is a review process stated in the relevent RFC, but IANA refuse to
answer queries on how to approach or contact anyone who might be on the
review commitee.

I doubt that there is even a review commitee. The RFC does not state how
appeals members are chosen.

Good Luck. I concur that .africa would solve this.

Kevin
whinging cynic who repeats himself all the time, and is ignored because he
repeats himself but waits in vain for a logical
answer......hello.....IANA.....are you out there......?
>
>Fred Gregoie is thus "the person who has aquired the 'rw' TLD" and whom
>Mark J. Elkins
><mje@mje99.posix.co.za> has asked to "return it to Rwanda". Now it looks
>like TLD name restitution would be due other countries as well.
>
>This situation is strange and leads to several questions:
>- Are the governments of these four countries aware of what's going on?
>- Do they approve it?
>- Are the secondary servers administrators in Sweden and at Princeton
>(NJ) aware of the astronomical fees charged for this name registration
>service.
>- Do they condone them?
>- Should the Internet community, through IANA, ISOC, IAHC, investigate
>this situation?
>
>Finally, this case underscores how justified .africa gTLD is justified.
>
>
>Denis Bucher wrote:
>
>> Just look at the PRICES at http://www.izpt.zr/, and you'll understand !!!
>
>and Martin J. Duerst wrote:
>
>> This is a major rip-off. 550 Swiss Francs for initial registration,
>> and 350 Swiss Francs for one-year renewal. For those who don't know
>> what a Swiss Franc is worth, currently that makes ~400$ for registration,
>> and 260$ for renewal. There is also a "name reservation" fee, not much
>> lower, just for reserving a domain name.
>
>Keep in mind that the per capita income in these countries may be less
>than $400/yr. DNS registration becomes de facto a elite service out of
>reach for entrepreneurs, researchers, faculty, etc. and all other
>potential and legitimate users. At those rates  Internet services will
>be stunted exactly as telephony did, i.e., it is less expensive to
>install and use a telephone in the wealthy United States than in poor
>Africa.


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