@Wash, @Mwendwa

I totally agree with your explanations.

The "intention" and perhaps the spirit of the regulatory clause is to stop at the "first" level sub-domain as you explain. BUT when push comes to shove, nothing stops the legal interpretation to include "subsequent" level subdomains like town.mmu.ac.ke.

How deep does the sub-domain clause cover? Perhaps for the avoidance of doubt, the clause could be revised to explicitly sate the "first" level subdomains.

The devil lies is in the details.

walu.
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On Thu, 11/27/14, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Licensing Framework for .ke
 To: "Walubengo J" <jwalu@yahoo.com>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
 Date: Thursday, November 27, 2014, 3:21 PM

 On 27
 November 2014 at 14:47, Walubengo J via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
 wrote:
 @Ali,



 Deja vu! (excuse my french :-)



 I warned you guys many months ago @

 http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/Kenyas-Internet-Domain-Set-for-a-Shakeup-Part-II/-/1959700/2172042/-/kj8tmsz/-/index.html

 or

 @ http://tinyurl.com/l7o5ssl



 Anyway, here is snapshot of one of the clauses in the
 Regulations (2010) being applied now and I quote

 >>(2) A person shall not create a new sub - domain
 under the Kenya country code Top Level Domain without the
 approval of the >>Commission.



 Meaning that If I run the university mmu.ac.ke domain, and need to
 create a domain from our town branch as in town.mmu.ac.ke I have to
 run to my good friend the DG, Wangusi to grant me the
 permission. I am sure he will give me the permission but the
 bigger question is why should I ask?

 Walu,
 I am 100% sure you have
 misinterpreted that clause! My understanding of
 it is that you cannot create something like .TV.ke or
 .MOBI.ke without the consent of that dragon called CA. The
 dragon will decide on what gets created besides .or.ke and such

 like.However, once you have walu.or.ke the dragon has not

 power (moral authority or whatever) to stop you from
 creating kanduyi.walu.or.ke
  unless they also want to come and manage your DNS
 servers.

 --
 Best regards,
 Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
 Nairobi,KE
 +254733744121/+254722743223
 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the
 scrambler."