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that a firm cannot be selected to administer a domain that has not yet been delegated. Then the
African Union Commission issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) and endorsed the same South African company as a preferred applicant for .africa, stating that it went through an international competitive bid in an open and transparent process. DotConnectAfrica stated the AU RFP to select a Registry was issued shortly after Dakar meeting in December and an award was made in January, an incredibly short period of evaluation time compared to what even ICANN registry selection process for an applicant would take nearly 6 –8 months. Additionally, the AU RFP imposed a "community application restrictions" which is not in line with the ICANN RFP for a gTLD applicant, making it impossible for any serious applicant to legitimately participate in the process, except Uniform that was directly recommended by the Chairman of the AFTLD (African Top Level Domain Name organization) who also runs the South African .ZA authority, as well as whose organization is represented at the AU DotAfrica TaskForce. Therefore, DCA contested that the entire RFP should be null and void as it is illegitimate and the members full of conflict of interest. Thereafter, DCA challenged the AU to fully disclose several issues in the greater interest of global public transparency and accountability" and release the details of its (dot)Africa EOI process and the RFP. DCA also submitted this issues to ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee
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meeting DCA strongly objected to this proposal by voicing its opinion during the ICANN Dakar public forum meeting directly to the ICANN Board as well as in writing to ICANN. DCA stated the addition of these names to ICANN's reserved list would have jeopardized the .Africa applications in the current new gTLD opening from being applied to by any applicant as per ICANN's gTLD guidebook The reservation of these names to the AUC would have meant that all the applications of the .africa gTLD would have been annulled and there would not be any competition to the .Africa gTLD at the ICANN level, as the names will be reserved for the AUC under a legislative protection for their own use as the AUC is requesting. After a period of time, DCA's requested for a public written response from ICANN on this issue and ICANN responded on March 8, 2012, to the
Communiqué presented by the AU officials during the Pre-Senegal Ministerial roundtable and eventually the names were not reserved, making DCA victorious on this issue
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announced that entities interested must submit their
Expression of Interest (EOI), which would serve as the commission's basis for endorsement and selection. DCA criticized AUC's plan to issue an EOI for an endorsement process, stating AUC's objective for accountability and transparency was "hollow and unbelievable," as their EOI fails to acknowledge the previous endorsement issued to DCA by the AUC. Furthermore, DCA pointed out that the EOI process would be biased, as the AU Task Force had already expressed its support for AfTLD during the 2011 annual African ccTLD event in Ghana. Additionally the AU Task force members are the same individuals who have vested interest in the outcome of the .africa as the members are compiled of the individuals that have registered a "dotafrica.org" domain and have claimed to be the competition for DCA's initiative.
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comments, most significantly DCA criticized that
Uniforum's application submitted as co-applicant with AU has given the rights of the database and Intellectual property to the AU in a separate contract as such policy is against ICANNs new gTLD requirements, despite the AUC not even being alegal applicant, just to get public support from African governments. Additionally DCA noted that uniforum provided an Understated Registry COI Amount and therefore UniForum does not pass the Financial Evaluation Criteria for the COI, if the actual COI amount provided by UniForum has been deliberately understated and that the amount is grossly insufficient to cater for the necessary user and registrant protection from possible risks of .AFRICA registry failure (or business failure of UniForum ZA Central Registry).
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the internet fraternity as to how some of the decisions were reached. DotConnectAfrica application received a GAC Objection advice to which they submitted a response following guidelines of the guidebook The New gTLD Program
Committee, which is part of the ICANN Board subsequently gave recommendation that the GAC advice be followed, which essential is the Board's advise, DCA critiqued in their reply to GAC. DCA then refused to withdraw, its application before accountability hearing is completed, against the backdrop that the ICANN Board decision was "unfair, discriminatory, and lacked appropriate due diligence and care" as well as "anti-competitive" to their application and organizational aspirations.
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Trust program is meant to give Africa a regional identity and global presence. The
Campaign was first launched in East Africa during the 2010 AITEC East Africa ICT Summit held from 7–8 September 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya. Sophia Bekele, the executive director, DotConnectAfrica made the announcement during the summit in her Keynote speech Since, the Yes2dotafrica campaign has gained recognition and been given credence as a platform for advocacy of the benefits of DotAfrica gTLD and technology transfer and received a very high number of global media coverage
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Process and issued its final decision regarding the same". ICANN had on March 24, 2014 proceeded to sign a contract with ZACR who are competitors for the ".africa" string, sparking an outrage that ICANN was continually mistreating DCA Trust. DCA is represented by an international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP based in New York while ICANN is represented by a Los
Angeles-based Law Firm Jones Day LLC, which has been working with ICANN nearly since its inception
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continental Top-Level Domain for use by organisations, businesses and individuals with guidance from
African Internet Agencies and in doing so to set up the structures and modalities for the implementation of the dotAfrica (.Africa) project. DCA's persistent interference in this process is likely to have substantive political, economic and social repercussions in Africa.
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ICANN Bylaws, by which any person materially affected by a decision or action of the ICANN Board may request that the action be reviewed by an independent third party for consistency with the ICANN Bylaws and/or
Articles of Incorporation and is governed by the International Dispute Resolution Procedures of the ICDR and the Supplementary Procedures for ICANN IRP Process.
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23 May 2015, and finally after much deliberation, pursuant to
Article IV, Section 3, paragraph 11 (c) of ICANN's Bylaws, the Panel declares that both the actions and inactions of the Board with respect to the application of DCA Trust relating to the .AFRICA gTLD were inconsistent with the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws of ICANN.
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turned around and expressed a new interest to get the gTLD for its own benefit. Then, the AUC issued a statement on May 12, 2010, referencing the endorsement letter issued to DCA, and stated that they would work with ICANN and other internet stakeholders to go through an open process to determine the implementation of .africa.
500:(IN CHAMBERS) Plaintiff's Ex Parte Application for TRO (DE ) by Judge R. Gary Klausner: The Court grants Plaintiff's Ex Parte Application for TRO. Defendant is enjoined from issuing the .Africa gTLD until the Court decides Plaintiff's Motion for Preliminary Injunction, scheduled for hearing on April 4, 2016.
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Ten years later after the legal dispute started, the journey of .africa has gone through literally three courts in California, and a number of Judges had ruled in favor and also contrary to the case. Therefore, despite the multiple precedential wins on DCA's battle over the .Africa Domain,
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The ruling also shed light on the AUC relationship with ICANN stating that public interest favors granting preliminary injunction, that The AUC's relationship with ZACR, and its interest in preventing the delay of issuing rights to .Africa creates a conflict of interest. Therefore, on this point, the
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On April 12, 2016, the same court also granted a Preliminary Injunction for DotConnectAfrica, the decision for case no. 16-CV-00862 RGK (JCx) The ruling detailed among other things that The balance of equities tips in favor of granting the preliminary injunction. Without preliminary injunction, DCA
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Upon review of the parties' arguments, the Court finds serious questions going to the merits. Plaintiff has demonstrated that once the gTLD is issued, it will be unable to obtain those rights elsewhere. Moreover, the injury it will suffer cannot be compensated through monetary damages. In opposition,
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DCA Trust was the first organization to approach the AUC and get an early endorsement to establish a .africa registry in Africa. However, after the AUC's chairman's office gave an endorsement in lieu of a support letter obtained from the AUC Infrastructure and Energy, that same AUC a few months later
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After the approvals by the Pan African institutions, DotConnectAfrica then launched and run a 6-year successful "Yes2dotAfrica" global awareness campaign as an ongoing effort to create awareness of the benefits of a dotAfrica name and do a public outreach. This campaign initiative, also part of DCA's
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Sophia Bekele, director of DotConnectAfrica, has undertaken internet and ICT policy-level work with various UN Agencies prior to being appointed to ICANN to serve as a member of the gNSO Council (from 2005 to 2007). The gNSO counsel oversights the new gTLD policy development process (PDP) for ICANN.
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On May 12, 2014 DCA won an injunction against ICANN in its IRP Proceedings in an arbitration process. The Injunction ruled that "ICANN must immediately refrain from any further processing of any application for .africa until this Panel has heard the merits of DCA's Trust Notice of Independent Review
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Beijing GAC objection: The ICANN meeting in Beijing China set the ground for some of the new gTLD procedures to continue, GAC Advice was part of the communiqué that saw several strings receive varying responses to their applications. The results of the GAC advice though attracted wide criticism from
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DCA Trust has made explicit commitment in its .africa application to ICANN that the Trust will establish a full-service Internet registry which will be operated by DCA Registry Services Ltd. in accordance with the technical and operational criteria and other specifications stipulated by ICANN in the
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gTLD application was submitted by DCA Trust during the application window that opened on 12 January 2012 and closed on 22 May 2012. DCA hopes to win the mandate from ICANN for the management of the .africa gTLD to enable it administer this resource on behalf of its Pan-African constituency and other
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After the objection, DotConnectAfrica refused to back down and contacted the African Union and ICANN. DCA also requested for a Reconsideration which ICANN denied prompting that organization to begin the Independent Review Process. The IRP is a proceeding provided for in Article IV, Section 3 of the
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Nearly a year later, the AUC organized an "AU DotAfrica Task Force" (members drawn from the African Internet Community, but that did not include DCA members), and issued yet another letter after the prior one to DCA, stating that the AU did not support nor endorse any individual or organization and
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DotConnectAfrica had set up an affiliate DCA Registry Services Ltd. in Nairobi, Kenya, for the running of the registry operation. The DCA registry intended to channel surplus resources gained from the .Africa registry operation to sponsor foundations that will cater to various charitable projects,
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According to the organization website, the governance model is to be adapted from Africa's development policy model augmented with other geo-TLD models. Public Policy consideration will include direct input from African policy makers, including the African Union, Economic Commission for Africa and
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150 The Panel declares DCA Trust to be the prevailing party in this IRP and further declares that ICANN is to bear, pursuant to Article IV, Section 3, paragraph 18 of the Bylaws, Article 11 of Supplementary Procedures and Article 31 of the ICDR Rules, the totality of the costs of this IRP and the
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On 14 August 2014, The IRP panel issued a Thirty Three (33) Pages ruling to accept DotConnectAfrica's position on the procedural framework of the IRP proceedings. The Panel has ruled terming its Declaration and the future Declaration on the Merits of the case are binding on ICANN. (ICANN wanted
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Failing to get the name directly reserved by ICANN in response to the Dakar request, in January 2013, the African Union Commission directly appointed a South African company UniForum to administer the .africa TLD on behalf of Africa. This was contested by DCA as quite misleading giving the reason
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On 9th July 2015, DCA Trust won in the DCA Vs ICANN .Africa IRP. DCA Trust was declared the prevailing party. The ICANN Board on 16 July 2015 called a special meeting consider the independent review panel's declaration that held in favor of DotConnectAfrica Trust , the board resolved that DCA's
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and the African Union DCA appealed to members of the U.S. Congress in February, 2013. DCA wrote and reiterated their issues with the manner in which UniForum received and carried out the AU's endorsement. DCA notes that it does not feel there are sufficient mechanisms for appeal or dealing with
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During the ICANN 46 International meeting in October 2011 in Dakar Senegal, DCA opposed the reservation of the names .africa, .afrique and .afriqya, suggestions that had been forwarded by the AUC and the AU DotAfrica Task Force, after the ministerial round table that preceded the Senegal ICANN
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with its main charitable objectives to: (a) for the advancement of education in information technology to the African society and access to internet resources; and (b) in connection with (a) to provide the African society with a continental Internet domain name by sponsoring, establishing, and
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and so filed an "early warning" objecting to DCA's application for the dotAfrica TLD with ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC). Therefore, the objection by the AUC stated that "the application fails to meet the minimum requirements prescribed by ICANN in the gTLD Applicant Guidebook
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economic grouping, which has all the African countries as its member states. DCA also presented and clarified the DotAfrica (.africa) initiative to the African Union Commission and, after working closely with AU officials, received an early endorsement in support of its gTLD proposal in 2009.
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Court accords little weight to the Yedaly Declaration. On balance, the Court finds it more prejudicial to the African community, and the international community in general, if the delegation of .Africa is made prior to a determination on the fairness of the process by which it was delegated.
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DCA's application constitutes an unwarranted intrusion and interference with the mandate given to the AUC by African Head of States and African Ministers responsible for Communication and Information Technologies. In this regard the AUC has been mandated to establish dotAfrica (.Africa) as a
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In its response to comments for competitive applicants, DCA wrote its official response to the Evaluators of ICANN that the application for Uniforum should be disqualified as it does not meet the legal, financial and endorsement criteria that followed the ICANN guidebook. Amongst many of its
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A United States District Court, Central District Of California - Western Division on March 4, 2016 in a ruling granted an Interim Relief for DotConnectAfrica in a decision that ICANN should hold off from delegating the .AFRICA top-level domain (TLD) for ZA Central Registry (ZACR.
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including the already launched miss.africa digital and generation.africa, as well as capacity building for African ccTLDs, with the general objective of improving the African Internet and business landscape. DotConnectAfrica announced in June 2012 that it had made an agreement with
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149 Furthermore, pursuant to Article IV, Section 3, paragraph 11 (d) of ICANN's Bylaws, the Panel recommends that ICANN continue to refrain from delegating the .AFRICA gTLD and permit DCA Trust's application to proceed through the remainder of the new gTLD application process.
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DCA also received another endorsement from key organizations of the global public internet such as Internationalized Domain Resolution Union (IDRU) which deals with global multi-language initiatives and whose members also contributed to the ICANN IDN policy process.
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unfortunately, the final outcome did not favor DCA Trust. DCA lost the US court battle for .Africa in 2021 when the Appeals court affirmed Lower court's decision that stopped DCA's case from moving forward to a Jury trail without the merits being heard.
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DotConnectAfrica Trust took ICANN to Court on January 20, 2016 following a disagreement on how ICANN processed the IRP ruling that was declared DCA Trust the prevailing party on July 9, 2015. DCA Trust submitted its first Amended Notice on 26 February 2016.
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The Temporary Restraining Order will allow the Court time to consider arguments from DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust) and ICANN regarding the .AFRICA TLD. DCA Trust is represented by Brown, Neri, Smith & Khan LLP in the case
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illegalities over the new gTLD program and requested the U.S. Congress to intervene immediately to appoint an independent New gTLD Ombudsman for the entire ICANN New gTLD program, where such grievances will be heard and addressed
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that, if granted the right to administer the .africa TLD, DCA would set prices at levels competitive with the popular .com TLD:about $ 10 for the domains
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2587:"DotConnectAfrica Trust v. ICANN Court Case, Minute Order re Plaintiff's Ex Parte Application for TRO [PDF, 24 KB]"
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application would be taken back to evaluation. Part of the IRP panel's recommendations are as follows:
2437:"Ethiopian Born Entrepreneur Sophia Bekele Wins .Africa Domain Name Accountability Suit Against ICANN"
1890:"DCA Trust raises ethical questions, writes to newly elected African Union Leaders on .africa debacle"
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2795:"ICANN Temporarily Stopped from Delegating .AFRICA Pending Federal Court Hearing on 4 April 2016"
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2367:"DCA Trust wins .africa IRP, ICANN to pay over Kshs 60 million in costs"
2008:"Silence signals Injustice over ICANN dotAfrica domain signing ceremony"
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691:"The dotafrica Project initiative, August 8, 2008"
3289:"Continent Ready for New Internet Address Regime"
1497:"Letter from Steve Crocker to Elham M.A. Ibrahim"
1233:KASS Media International, June J (Apr 27, 2011).
337:Early warnings of objections to DCA's application
1261:"Scramble for 'dot africa' internet domain name"
1104:"Scramble for 'dot africa' internet domain name"
437:IRP Injunction awarded to DotConnectAfrica Trust
2032:. CIO East Africa, Michael Ouma. Archived from
2010:. Domaining Africa, Brent Donald. 15 April 2014
1822:. CIO East Africa, Michael Ouma. Archived from
3055:".africa domain frozen by US court injunction"
2170:"IRP Panel's Declaration of the IRP Procedure"
1408:. The East African, Mwaura Kimani. Dec 5, 2011
852:Diplomat East Africa, Jane Mwangi (Oct 2010).
2751:".africa dispute will be in court on 4 April"
1642:DomainingAfrica, Brent Donald (Mar 1, 2013).
1339:. Telecompaper Asia and Africa. June 19, 2012
986:Bizcommunity, Carole Kimutai (Sep 10, 2010).
744:The Standard, Fredrick Obura (Jun 25, 2012).
214:United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
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1274:Radio Netherlands Worldwide (Apr 27, 2011).
1195:"Capital Talk, Movers and Shakers of Africa"
195:African Development Bank on policy matters.
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770:Ethiopian News, Solomon D. (Mar 27, 2010).
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2707:"ICANN told to wait on .africa delegation"
1714:. ICANN. November 20, 2012. Archived from
909:Balancing Act Africa, ed. (Dec 17, 2010).
479:DotConnectAfrica Trust Vs ICANN Court Case
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746:"Safaricom readies to host Africa domain"
451:this to be "advisory" and not "binding)
3324:Technology companies established in 2006
3121:"US court puts a halt on .africa domain"
2663:"Kenya, S.Africa domain row intensifies"
1307:"A DotAfrica generation soon to be born"
988:"Dot Africa campaign to brand continent"
935:The Zambian, Brenda Zulu (Feb 5, 2011).
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1459:. Africa union. 2012. Archived from
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1793:. DotConnectAfrica. Archived from
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2641:"Domain names: What's in a name?"
2369:. CIO East Africa. Archived from
2274:. Domainingafrica. 20 August 2014
1668:DotConnectAfrica (Feb 21, 2013).
3314:Organisations based in Mauritius
3299:. allAfrica.com. March 22, 2010.
3291:. allAfrica.com. March 14, 2011.
3167:. DomainingAfrica. 13 April 2016
2509:. TandaaBiashara. Archived from
1709:"GAC Early Warning 1-1165-42560"
1361:. DotConnectAfrica. May 23, 2011
1305:RNW Africa Desk (Mar 22, 2010).
575:"CEO Today - Africa Awards 2022"
369:Democratic Republic of the Congo
316:new gTLD Applicants' Guidebook.
2775:. DomainingAfrica. 7 March 2016
2439:. Ethioinfodesk. Archived from
455:DCA Trust Victory against ICANN
312:stakeholders around the globe.
2729:".africa domain held up again"
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1259:Tim Hume (December 5, 2011).
599:"Governance Structure of DCA"
236:Yes2dotAfrica Global Campaign
2252:. TheDomains. 16 August 2014
1128:Africa 7 TV (Dec 21, 2011).
714:African Union (2009-08-13).
3241:www.thereporterethiopia.com
3189:. BNSK Blog. Archived from
2845:. TechMoran. Archived from
2709:. TrademarksandBrandsOnline
2621:. Tech Cabal. 16 March 2016
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1521:. Aptantech. March 8, 2012
2731:. ITWebNews. 9 March 2016
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1049:Constant Contact (2010).
550:"Articles of association"
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424:IRP Process: DCA Vs ICANN
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161:(DCA) is an independent
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281:AUC DotAfrica Taskforce
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3057:. ItWeb. 14 April 2016
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1892:. thereporterethiopia
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2106:. Domain News Africa
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813:on February 27, 2014
782:on February 24, 2014
303:Application to ICANN
190:Governance Structure
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1960:"DCA Trust V ICANN"
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1677:Letter to Congress
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