June 17, 2012
2:25 p.m.
The three support applications are particularly disappointing in light of all three being from long-time ICANN participants.
A reasonable interpretation of the lack of African applicants is that people looked at the substantial cost and dubious benefits of a vanity TLD and everyone who wasn't already drunk on ICANN kool-aid came to a rational decision that their limited funds would better be spent elsewhere. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly