• In January 2016, DCA Trust  went to court over ICANN's processing of the Independent Review Panel (IRP) ruling. This found ICANN indeed violated is Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation and that the Board's actions/inactions on our.Africa gTLD application were not accountable.  
• In March 05, 2016, a United States District Court, Central District of California - Western Division gave a ruling granting an Interim Relief [PDF Case No: CV 16-00862 RGK (JCx)] for DCA Trust by issuing a decision that ICANN should hold off from delegating the .AFRICA top-level domain (TLD) for ZA Central Registry (ZACR). The court found "serious questions" going toward DCA's likelihood of success on the merits and a balance of hardships that tips sharply in DCA's favour.....[Cont'd].... As such, the Court GRANTED a preliminary injunction barring ICANN from delegating the rights to .Africa until this case is resolved. 
• Recently on December 14 2016, the Ninth Circuit court of appeals also granted the unopposing motions on dismissal of appeals [PDF D.C. No.2:16-cv-00862-RGK-JC] on  the district court's lack of jurisdiction and denied ICANN's request to include language that DCA's preliminary injunction order is void and the appeal is moot.

We await the court process that will hopefully concluded soon.

African Governments Continued misunderstanding over .Africa

I wrote various public commentaries and sparked a debate about the ICANN transition having an impact on the US elections.  I wrote to The Hill a message I titled "ICANN is already under the influence of Foreign Governments".   This drew an example of how ICANN allowed the African Union Commission (AUC), an Intergovernmental body to heavily interfere in the .Africa application so as to delegate it to itself.  This eventually led me to take ICANN to Court.   However. I did not expect that there would be another body that would try to change the rules.   In support of the AUC, the African Telecom Union (ATU) recently came up with a widely opposed proposal from an African Group's Common Proposal (AFCP) for the modification and expansion of Resolution 47 to include generic top level domain and specifically cited .Africa.  To make my views heard, I wrote in a public rejoinder to the proposal on an Industry blog CircleID: "Why African Telecom Union (ATU) Proposal Should be Rejected".  I stated categorically that the ATU's sponsored Tunis "Africa Proposal" is the same as Uncle AUC's Dakar "Africa Agenda", proposed to circumvent global ICANN policy, and should be rejected!

In response to the above, the ICANN CEO also wrote to  Mr. Houlin Zhao, the Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) stating ICANN concerns on the  above proposal and that its initiations might have been triggered by some misunderstandings of some African countries on a specific Top-Level Domain application.  This validates my long standing view that the African governments have always been misled by the vested interest groups on the characterization of .Africa gTLD.