On 16/11/2017 11:51, Alan Levin wrote: > Hi, > > I've been studying African cctld for many years.
I've been working in the industry for 20+ years (I started running/managing/automating CO.ZA in September 1995) > The cost of registering an African cctld in Uganda / Nigeria / Ghana / > Botswana / Angola, etc appears to remain totally out of kilter with > the global market rates. To buy a .ke for a local is around USD6, but > for a foreigner it's >USD17 and they appear to be one of the cheapest. I agree. I view a Domain as one of the earlier steps to obtaining on-line presence. Domain names should be viewed as enablers.. > In South Africa a domain goes for less than USD5, and they are > available globally at the same price. We have over 1.2m > registrations... significantly more than any other African cctld... :-) I charge R80.00 for a CO.ZA domain. Exchange Rates as of 16th Nov 12:00 GMT - $1 = R14.31 R80 = approx $5.60 - that's with my Markup and VAT - so that's to the man in the street. > How can I encourage our clients to buy African cctlds when there is so > much more to chose from nowadays? William Stucke lead a team, of which I was a significant member, paid for by ICANN to run an African DNS survey. The 3 month Survey took over a year. We did present some (what I believe to be) reasonable conclusions and summary - which you can find a link to at https://dnsafrica.study Pricing (& ease of paying) and availability (& ease of access or automation) were amongst the considerations. But, I agree with you, or forget about any individual African Name - and just buy your dotAfrica from me at https://vweb.co.za ;-) Seriously though - you are correct. Prices should generally be lower. -- Mark James ELKINS - Posix Systems - (South) Africa [email protected] Tel: +27.128070590 Cell: +27.826010496 For fast, reliable, low cost Internet in ZA: https://ftth.posix.co.za
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