.africa
DotAfrica Organization Limited is an effort for developing the .AFRICA sTLD for “organization’s who provide an undertaking that their registered office or principal place of business is located in the African Union (AU) region, Natural persons registered in AU, or Organizations established by the African Union.”
“DotAfrica is committed to contributing to the development of Internet on the African continent and propose to re-invest back proceeds into the social and technological advancement initiatives within the community. A revenue allocation structure will be adopted by the DotAfrica registry to guarantee that a portion of revenues will be directly re-invested into the community through a grant program”
Consumer Benefits: Africa’s total population is estimated at 922 MM, with internet penetration growth and high GDP improvements YoY in most every African country.
Supporters: Regional network operators and ccTLD administrators from Africa – AfNOG/AfriNIC, afTLD
DotConnectAfrica – a not for profit organization- will be applying for delegation of a regional identifier top level domain –‘.africa’ from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and then make it available to the Pan-African and African community. www.dotconnectafrica.org
Consumer Benefits: An opportunity to build a common branding for continental Africa as well as expand the inclusion of information and internet society in Africa representing over 900 mill people. Partial of the income stream from domain name sales will be Distributed on Target (DOT) through the DotConnectAfrica Foundation to organizations and projects of sustainability around Africa.
Supporters: Over 13 African Governments and Ministers, African Regional & Continental organizations includng African Union Commision, Economic Commision for Africa; large & Small Private Sector actors and Non-Governmental Organizations.
