Clearly, Stefan and his team turned out to be a bit more sophisticated than Google would have expected. The "Sting code" was a master stroke. Inevitably, the spot light will now turn to Google EA and Kenic who are responsible for assigning country level domain names here. Google is an advertising firm not a collector of annual fees and Sh2000 per year seems like way out of its core business. So I suspect, a third party with possibly an agreement with Kenic, who actually collect the registration fees, is responsible. To pre-empt the inevitable, Kenic should also come out with a definite statement on this issue! James Mbugua On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:01 PM, McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Matunda Nyanchama <mnyanchama@aganoconsulting.com> wrote:
I am wondering what Google's aswer is to this clear case of dirty tricks.
Their initial reaction was :
'We were mortified to learn that a team of people working on a Google project improperly used Mocality’s data and misrepresented our relationship with Mocality to encourage customers to create new websites. We’ve already unreservedly apologised to Mocality. We’re still investigating exactly how this happened, and as soon as we have all the facts, we’ll be taking the appropriate action with the people involved.'
Am sure we will hear more soon.
-- Cheers,
McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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