Finally, a signing ceremony for
the .Africa has been dotted between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN) at the ongoing ICANN 49 in Singapore on Wednesday, March
2014, reports ITRealms.
The ceremony conducted between
Akram Atallah, the president of ICANN's Global Domains Division (GDD) and Lucky
Masilela, CEO of ZA Central Registry (ZACR) took part in a symbolic signing, which
allows the new Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) ‘.Africa’ to proceed to
delegation.
ITRealms also reports that this marks
the first Registry Agreement signed between ICANN and an African gTLD registry
operator.
A contingency representing the
African Union Commission (AUC), dotAfrica, and ZADNA (domain name authority of
South Africa) were in attendance, as well as several ZACR and ICANN staff
members.
Remmy Nweke in Singapore
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