back to article Third time lucky: ICANN beats off .africa ban

Internet overseer ICANN will push ahead with a new ".africa" top-level domain, despite having twice been ordered not to because of serious questions over how it handled the case. Earlier this month, a Los Angeles court refused [PDF] a preliminary injunction against ICANN that would prevent it from adding .africa to the …

  1. Terje
    Coat

    To my Ears this sounds very much like a copy of the recent .web affair covered last week.

    Mines the one with a somewhat smaller brown envelope this time

  2. Version 1.0 Silver badge

    I love new TLDs

    The addition of new top-level domains really helps fighting spam at the mail server - I can simply drop them. This sounds a little harsh I know but I monitor their spam load and so far I have not seen anything good come from any of them - once the spam starts arriving, the domain is added to the drop list.

  3. Paul Kinsler

    maybe

    they should just award one party ".africa", and the other ".african", chosen by lottery; and let all the enthusiastic africa/n web users chose which they prefer.

    1. WatAWorld

      Re: maybe

      That would make it darn easy for the phishers to confuse people.

  4. Jason Bloomberg Silver badge

    ICANN

    A swamp which needs draining.

    1. Version 1.0 Silver badge

      Re: ICANN

      So which billionaire would you like appointed to drain the swamp?

      1. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
        Coat

        Re: ICANN

        William H Gates III?

  5. Moosh
    Coat

    Awaiting the inevitable

    iblesstherainsdownin.africa

  6. WatAWorld

    One can only wonder at the motivation of ICANN staff and council.

    One can only wonder at the motivation of ICANN staff and council.

    What would motivate them to try and pull this off?

    They must have been motivated somehow.

    How did ICANN progress so quickly to exceed FIFA in apparent absurdity and subterfuge?

  7. Yes Me Silver badge
    Holmes

    Logic?

    ...the logic that it is possible for the .africa name to be redelegated at a future date. While that is theoretically possible, it demonstrates almost no understanding of how the internet registry market functions.
    No, I think it demonstrates that the judge doesn't care; if redelegation occurs, it would hand all the registry operator's customers and future revenue to the new one. That would be some future judge's problem.
    There is literally nothing that the addition of the .africa name to the internet will do to expand Africans' access to the internet addresses; it is simply a word.
    Exactly right, which is why all the new Latin script TLDs created by ICANN are sheer stupidity except, of course, for the shysters who skim off the registration fees.

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