DCA trust wrote this commentary as a response to the ICANN's Official Response to African Union on Request to Reserve DotAfrica Name who stated that "ICANN is not able to take actions that would go outside of the community-established and documented guideline of the program to provide the special treatment you have requested. ICANN does wish to explain, however that protections exist that will allow the African Union and its member states to play a prominent role in determining the outcome of any application for these top-level domain name strings." This was taken to be a strong vindication for DCA’s strong opposition on reserving .africa related names. | DCA trust wrote this commentary as a response to the ICANN's Official Response to African Union on Request to Reserve DotAfrica Name who stated that "ICANN is not able to take actions that would go outside of the community-established and documented guideline of the program to provide the special treatment you have requested. ICANN does wish to explain, however that protections exist that will allow the African Union and its member states to play a prominent role in determining the outcome of any application for these top-level domain name strings." This was taken to be a strong vindication for DCA’s strong opposition on reserving .africa related names. |