Re: africa gTLD

[Dr Nii Narku Quaynor <quaynor@ncs.com.gh>]

Hi All,

Sorry guys. There is often a different viewpoint. Frankly, .africa
will make no difference her. Nii can still register those countries
under .africa before the governments, unless they are being reserved and
subjected to "unusual" processes. Please, lets cool down and cut out the
emotions and crusades etc.

Tierno S. Bah wrote:
> 
> Amandeep Sandhu wrote:
> >
> > Another pointer to take away every ounce of legitimacy from Frderic of
> > Burundi,Rawanda,Zaire doamin registry hijacking fame.I remember reading
> > somewhere in his pages that he accepts Eurocard(mastercard).My knowledge
> > is that the inhibitants of these African countries have not access to
> > mastercard in these countries because the companies are not there due to
> > lack of so called financial infrastructure.
> >
> 
> That's absolutely right. Frederic Gregoire requires payment in Swiss
> Francs ONLY. Even though he's using the cTLDs of African countries. 
The Africans, did not take it. Did they want it??

>This
> shows that he's defintely not willing to share in the responsibilities,
> risks and the rewards that come with being the cTLD Administrator of
> Zaire, Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi.
> That said, it's important to find out how he managed to group under his
> sole authority the management of DNS registration for countries at war
> against each other, namely Zaire vs Rwanda and Burundi.
>

No need for that. He was using technology in business.
 
> > He seems to be targeting his sales pitch to people outside these
> > countries.
> >
> 
> He also targets Western expatriates on assignment or doing business in
> those countries. These people or institutions can afford such high
> registration fees. For the average entrepreneur or company in these
> countries, the registration rates are astronomical and out of reach.
> 

seems irrelevant. everyone defines a target market.

> > He should be kicked out of these countries.
> 

Is he resident in all those countries? huh!!

> It's time to react by launching an investigation and information
> campaign to sensitize the authorities of these countries. The following
> steps should be taken.
> 
> - First, find out whether he has any kind of backing or approval from
> some officials in these countries. This is important because a foreigner
> could not have acted so boldly if he didn't rely on some connivence, and
> other murky practices, including the selection of strawmen, fronting for
> him in the four capital cities.
> 

why all that? when did we become police men?

> - Second, brief and sensitize the embassies of Burundi, Congo, Rwanda,
> and Zaire abroad, about this breach of the sovereignty of their
> governments.
> 

They will drink the water when they are ready. There is no crusade here.

> - Third, I intend to write the African Diplomatic Corps Caucaus in
> Washington, DC to inform them and seek their collective reaction.
> Depending on the outcome, it may or may not be necessary to broaden the
> campaign to:
>         - the Black Caucus of the United States Congress
>         - TransAfrica (Randall Robinson)
>         - the Rainbow Coalition (Rev. Jesse Jackson)
>         - the African and African American Summit (Rev. Leon Sullivan)
>         - the State Department and USAID*
> 

Lets keep politics out of this. Our decisions will last longer.

> State Dpt and USAID should be particularly interested. Rwanda is one of
> the 21 African countries (not Burundi, Congo and Zaire) recipient of
> Internet assistance for $20 million, under the Africa Global Information
> Infrastructure (GII) Gateway Project. Soon, USAID will being
> implementing the Leland Initiative: Empowering Africans in the
> Information Age. The project was named after the late Congressman Mickey
> Leland who died in Ethiopia while on mission. The DNS is an integral and
> vital piece of the TCP/IP Stack and of Internet services. A country
> assessment for Rwanda should indicate whether the domain name space in
> that country is in the hands of its rightful holder, the Government of
> Rwanda, or whether it is being surrepticiously used by an Internet
> raider ...
> 

The sooner Africans quit waiting for and looking for handouts, the
faster we will be able to keep up with advances in high technology.
Our countries should develop because we want to not because 20 countries
receive $15 million from Leland for Internet. What can $750K do for
Internet in a country???

> - Tierno S. Bah
> AfriQ*Access, Inc.


Nii