Series of New African TLDs Fail to Go Live, Get Termination Notice from ICANN

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Series of New African TLDs Fail to Go Live, Get Termination Notice from ICANN

By CircleID Reporter
May 11, 2016, 4:59 pm PDT Views: 11,769 Add Comment

Nine of the 17 African new Top-level Domain (TLD) applicants have received termination notices this week as a result of missing their deadlines to go live. Kieren McCarthy from The Register reports: “The applicants for .naspers, .supersport, .mzansimagic, .mnet, .kyknet, .africamagic, .multichoice, .dstv and .gotv—all based in South Africa—signed contracts with ICANN in 2015 [paying $185,000 per TLD application] but failed to put their generic top-level domains live within a 12-month window. As a result, ICANN is now rescinding their rights. The only company from Africa that has successful put new top-level domains online is the registry operator for South Africa’s .za, ZACR, which applied for and runs three city TLDs: .capetown, .durban and .joburg.”

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