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Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Accra Remote Hub Participation

Monday, November 16, 2009

I am participating remotely in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2009 currently going on in Egypt, from Accra. The Accra remote hub participation is under the theme “Internet Governance – Creating Opportunities for Ghana”. Promoting IPv6 adoption in Ghana: An important step towards bridging the digital divide was presented by Ivy Tuffour of AITI-KACE. I spoke on [...]

The death of Kalu Ndukwe & how it affected the .NG Domain Registry

Friday, October 2, 2009

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The .NG domain name registry has been problematic for about two weeks now. New domains could not be registered via the Internet and some old ones stopped working. I had been sniffing around to find the root cause. It turned out that my suspicion on the problem was right – the problem is linked to [...]

EstDomains’ ICANN Accreditation revoked

Thursday, November 13, 2008

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Effective 24th November 2008, EstDomains ceases to be an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar. ICANN* is revoking the accreditation on the basis that the President of EstDomains, Vladimir Tsastsin based on records from an Estonian court, was convicted of credit card fraud, money laundering and document forgery. Hitherto, there had been a lot of hue-and-cry about EstDomains [...]