new gtlds ICANN further implicated in .Africa controversy

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Analysis Staff at domain-name overseer ICANN repeatedly rejected independent expert advice to ensure the .africa top-level domain was won by their preferred applicant – and then tried to hide their influence by censoring the results of an independent inquiry into the affair.

That is the latest revelation from our investigation into redacted documents produced by an independent review panel that looked into why ICANN had rejected one of the two bids for .africa...

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I think it is just African nature that complicates the whole issue. Their emotional decisions has landed ICANN into this debacle. Two decisions on the same issue. Such lukewarm attitudes is an example of what keeps the lagging.