One Big Cheer for ICANN – But Still a Long Way from Our “Gooool”
As we approach the World Cup in South Africa this June it’s heartening to see the amount of attention being paid to the continent. As...
A Little Flexibility from ICANN and We Might Just Get IDNs… for Everyone
Nobody doubts that some time in the near future there will be Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) in Chinese, Russian or Arabic...
Queuing for IDN gTLDs in Seoul
Early last week, still jetlagged from the long flight in from the US, I had the chat with some of the Emerging Markets delegates to the...
Shouldn’t tea time for Kenya mean IDN TLDs?
Anyone who knows Kenya knows it is famous for tea. And while I can now get Kenyan tea online from US companies like Starbucks, Caribou...
ICANN’s Positive Affirmation: Good News for Africa and Emerging Markets
Sometimes you get what you are asking for. And this seems to be one of those occasions… and the US government can give itself a pat on...
As ICANN grows, time to focus on emerging markets
[NB, this article, co-written with my friend and colleague Vika Mpisane from South Africa, is currently awaiting publication in...