• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Domain Industry & Internet News

Domain Industry & Internet News

Domain Name Industry News

  • Home
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submit News
  • Comment Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Advertise Hosting & Domain Industry Jobs
You are here: Home / icann / ICANN Puts Final Nail In Coffin of DotConnectAfrica Bid

ICANN Puts Final Nail In Coffin of DotConnectAfrica Bid

August 16, 2013 by Michele Neylon

As most observers of ICANN know, there were two applicants for the .africa new TLD.

The second applicant, dotConnectAfrica, did not have the broad support that a “geo” TLD would need in order to meet the criteria laid out in the ICANN newTLD application guidebook.

Over the past few months dotConnectAfrica have tried every method imaginable, and a few that most wouldn’t think of, to retain their application. However time and again their efforts have failed.

The most recent set of documents released by the new gTLD committee of ICANN’s board includes a resolution dealing with this .africa bid:

c.   Reconsideration Request 13-4

Whereas, DotConnectAfrica Trust’s (“DCA Trust”) Reconsideration Request, Request 13-4, sought reconsideration of the Board action (through the New gTLD Program Committee) on 4 June 2013, accepting advice from ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee regarding DCA Trust’s new gTLD application for .AFRICA, and determining that this particular new gTLD application will not be approved.

Whereas, the BGC considered the issues raised in Reconsideration Request 13-4.

Whereas, the BGC recommended that Reconsideration Request 13-4 be denied because DCA Trust has not stated proper grounds for reconsideration.

Resolved (2013.08.13.NG04), the New gTLD Program Committee adopts the BGC Recommendation on Reconsideration Request 13-4

and links to this PDF:

[spiderpowa-pdf src=”https://www.internetnews.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/recommendation-dca-trust-01aug13-en.pdf”]recommendation-dca-trust-01aug13-en

Which effectively kills off the bid completely.. or at least one would assume it does .. though every time observers think that this bid is dead it finds a way of coming back .. like a zombie . ..

Filed Under: icann Tagged With: DCA Trust, Domain name, DotConnectAfrica, Generic top-level domain, Governmental Advisory Committee, icann, New gTLD Program Committee, Top-level domain

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

Primary Sidebar

Recent Articles

ICANN’s Cancún Meeting Was Almost Normal

Middle East DNS Forum to be Held in Istanbul

Gandi Merges with TWS to Form “Your.Online”

Anguilla Offline due to Fibre Issue

IGF 2023 to be Held in Kyoto, Japan

Recent Comments

  • ICANN Gets First Female CEO on Centralnic Head Honcho Announces Immediate Retirement
  • Kieren McCarthy Elected to Nominet Board on Nominet Election Candidates 2022 Finally Announced
  • Michele Neylon on Nominet Taking RDAP Out of Beta
  • Gavin Brown on Nominet Taking RDAP Out of Beta
  • ICANN Heading to Hamburg (ICANN78) and Los Angeles (GDD) Plus Training For African Registries - Goldstein Report on ICANN Announces GDD Summit Dates & Location

Categories

Blogroll

  • Alex Bligh
  • Circle ID
  • Domain Incite
  • Domain Name News
  • Domain Name Wire
  • Jason Thompson

Blogs

  • Domain Gang
  • Stéphane Bortzmeyer

Archives

Recent Comments

  • ICANN Gets First Female CEO on Centralnic Head Honcho Announces Immediate Retirement
  • Kieren McCarthy Elected to Nominet Board on Nominet Election Candidates 2022 Finally Announced
  • Michele Neylon on Nominet Taking RDAP Out of Beta
  • Gavin Brown on Nominet Taking RDAP Out of Beta
  • ICANN Heading to Hamburg (ICANN78) and Los Angeles (GDD) Plus Training For African Registries - Goldstein Report on ICANN Announces GDD Summit Dates & Location

Categories

Blogroll

  • Alex Bligh
  • Circle ID
  • Domain Incite
  • Domain Name News
  • Domain Name Wire
  • Jason Thompson
  • Nigel Roberts

Blogs

  • Domain Gang
  • Stéphane Bortzmeyer

Copyright © 2023 InternetNews.me