AfTLD : First African ccTLD workshop, Cairo
African Top Level Domains Org. “AfTLD” successfully organized the first African ccTLD workshop in Cairo, which is planned to be an annual ccTLDs event .
The workshop title was building a local internet community, the focus was to promote best practices among African country code “domain” managers which will lead toward better running of country TLD “top level domains” and will promote local internet services and industry as a result. the workshop was attending by 35 participants from 15 countries, its was amazing to listen to different models of administration from all over Africa, from closed restricted and very tough domain registration policies to open dynamic registries .
one of my biggest concerns which i did express during the workshop is the lack of an automated registry systems, its no longer easy to run a manual registrations process, we did invite .cz registry to present their FRED registry system beside review some of the available registry systems .
all presentations are available in www.aftld.org/cairo2007/
Bravo AfTLD .. keep the good work ..
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