Dear Kictanet Readers, I would like to inform you that ICANN has initiated an in-depth study of the DNS ecosystem in Africa. The Team is attempting to cover all 54 countries and 58 TLDs in Africa (there are 4 gTLD's). The Team thinks that this will be of interest to the whole Internet community. Read the full article published on the AFRINIC blog at: http://www.afrinic.net/blog/115-baseline-market-study-on-domain-names-in-afr... William Stucke is leading this team (which includes myself, Mark Elkins) and would greatly appreciate your support by signing up at https://dnsafrica.study/ and selecting and completing the questionnaires relevant to yourself. Each one takes only 10 minutes or so. All confidential information will be respected, and only aggregated figures published. A copy of the final report will be publicly available and will be provided to every participant. -oOo- Why this is important: By observing who is doing what, it should be possible to provide information to others what works well. This should benefit everybody. This should help increase the number of Domains as well as help drive up Content, Peering and General Internet growth (i.e. Consumers) in every African countries local market. Also - I've personally no real idea how many Domains are in use by Africans, both Local and domains like ".COM"! Thanking you in anticipation for your support. Kind regards, -- Mark James ELKINS - Posix Systems - (South) Africa mje@posix.co.za Tel: +27.128070590 Cell: +27.826010496 For fast, reliable, low cost Internet in ZA: https://ftth.posix.co.za