<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 July 2012 12:40, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com" target="_blank">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> the outreach program was certainly pathetic, though it attracted not one but two applications for .africa --<br>
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</div>one actually<br>
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and one for .DotAfrica.<br>
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a clever way to avoid name collision.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>From <a href="http://www.biztechafrica.com/article/dca-partners-set-dotafrica-registry-kenya/3278/">http://www.biztechafrica.com/article/dca-partners-set-dotafrica-registry-kenya/3278/</a><br>
<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><i>DotConnectAfrica Trust said in a statement on 14 June that it had
applied for the same geographical string name for ‘Africa’, pronounced
as 'DotAfrica'. It said: “It is important to note that the initial
evaluation process will also consider string similarity - and all
strings applied for will be reviewed; and applications for the same or
similar strings will end up in the same “String Contention Set”. The
prescriptions of the ICANN new gTLD Guidebook (Section 2.2.1.1) are
quite clear in this regard. <br></i></blockquote><br>When I first saw the application list I also never thought that .africa and .dotafrica would survive the contention process as separate strings. Apparently this was by design, though I'm not really sure of the rationale; I find it one of the more fascinating quirks of this application round.<br>
<br>- Evan<br><br>
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