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Hey to all!
I'm Kudra Maliro from Goma in eastern in DRCongo and i'm new at this community.
Thanks,
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> On Nov 16, 2017, at 3:27 PM, Mark Elkins <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
>
>> 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.
>
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> 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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