DotConnectAfrica (DCA) contends that three companies (dotafrica.org ,AfTLD and ARC) are trying to undermine their Yes to DotAfrica campaign.
DCA tried to explain why they think that these companies are trying to undermine their campaign.Here are their explanations :
"Dotafrica.org
Dotafrica.org was registered in the name of Dr.Nii Quaynor, a member of the AU Task Force on DotAfrica whose conflicting interests are well-known, but when the proposer could not build a broad-based following to support the idea, the DotAfrica.org Organization, as proposed could not be registered; and as such was never registered and thus remained a rudimentary proposal on a web site (http://www.dotafrica.org/) never to see the light of day.
- This however has not stopped it from shamelessly engaging in pretentious and tendentious posturing whilst portraying itself as a prospective applicant to ICANN for DotAfrica, even though its main proponent has in secret, entirely abandoned the 'dotafrica.org' idea and 'sold out' to rent-seeking opportunists. DotAfrica.org has already been exposed as a Ghanaian-sponsored agenda that has proved to be a colossal fiasco.
- The proponents of DotAfrica.org continue to engage in needless brinkmanship and 'political grandstanding' simply to remain relevant in the DotAfrica process even though it is clear to serious analysts and careful observers that dotafrica.org is no longer a serious contender; against the backdrop that the owner of dotafrica.org has already and openly given a vote of confidence to AfTLD.
- The fact that the domain name dotafrica.org was registered in 2002 whilst the proposal published on its website, a solid 5 years after the fact in 2007, following DCA commencement of the dotafrica initiative, only shows the original intentions behind the registration of the domain name was simply for ' cyber-squatting/rent-seeking intentions' and nothing to do with the actual DotAfrica Initiative as presently proposed and modeled under the aegis of the on-going ICANN program for the introduction of new gTLDs.
AFTLD
- AfTLD is a Private Company that is NOT owned by African ccTLDs
The involvement of AfTLD in DotAfrica has proved to be the most dangerous, and of the most sinister motivation, in terms of its claims that the AfTLD represents African country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) and as such, is best positioned to operate DotAfrica. In spite of this hollow claim, AfTLd's position remains highly tenuous and unsustainable.
- But what is (or who is) exactly the AfTLD?
AfTLD is actually a private company limited by guarantee ('African Top Level Domains Limited'). Internet Direct Limited and Mr. Kwok Vee Kong Kem Yen are both the initial shareholder and initial director of AFTLD Limited. Internet Direct Limited in turn is owned 95 per cent by Mr. Kwok Kem Yen Kwok Vee Kong and 5 per cent by Kwok Kem Yen Ah Chook. Internet Direct Limited is owned by the Mauritius ccTLD, as such, is the Mauritius Registry according to information available from the Mauritius ccTLD Network Information Centre (See http://www.register.mu) and also verified by DCA sources. The AfTLD Constitution provides for the admission to membership of organizations which manage ISO 3166 country code Top Level Domains delegated by ICANN.
African Registry consortium (ARC)
DCA has already exposed the ARC for what it truly is here but it seems the proponents of the ARC idea are continuing with their entirely profit-driven, opportunistic business plan.
Again, the motives of the ARC would appear confusing to the untrained eye.
- On one hand it claims on its web site to be soliciting an expression of interest from AfTLD to enable it support and financially assist AfTLD's bid to ICANN and in return, to channel monies back to the AfTLD
- On the other hand, the ARC, according to Koffi Fabrice Djossou, publicly says that it intends to approach the AU directly