Well, About 3 years ago I registered 15 .co.tz domains free of charge at that time the .tz domain was controlled by a gentleman who believed that giving out the domains for free would increase the amount of local online content and sure it worked.
Last year tzNIC(http://www.tznic.or.tz/) an NGO was formed to manage the domain am not sure why he was asked to give it over by I remember he used to take his time. They gave us a year to prepare and begin payment this year. The cost of the .ug domain is really high and I have not seen a proper online payment system in place (correct me if am wrong). If the NGO to be formed to manage the domain puts cost in its objectives, Thumbs Up. Kind Regards Billy -----Original Message----- From: Dorothy Okello [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 12:46 PM To: Linux Users Group Uganda; [email protected] Cc: Lillian Nalwoga Subject: [LUG] [i-network] The .UG issue - Uganda Online discussions 2010 [Apologies for cross-posting] >From: "Lillian Nalwoga" <[email protected]> >Subject: [i-network] The .UG issue- Uganda Online discussions 2010 >Date: 1 Jul 2010 08:47:05 +0200 Good morning netters, I trust you are doing well! As we move forward in this year's IG discussions, I would like to introduce the .UG issue. Many of us have felt that these discussions are worthless if they do not yield any tangible results. Now, following discussions on the management and ownership of Uganda's ccTLD- UG, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has taken up this issue and they have come up a proposal on the way forward for the management of this top Critical Internet Resource. In the recent discussions, there were recommendations;- - That management of ccTLD should be left under the private sector, (CFI) in order to reduce the dissatisfaction currently existing. - Improve policy making by establishing a wide stakeholder representative board to carry out policy formulation. - the regulator, on behalf of government needs to play a more active role in the management of the ug Based on these recommendations, UCC is proposing to - Establish a non profit making company which should be charged with the management of Uganda's top level domain names (.ug). i.e. Uganda National Information Centre (.ugNIC), (Please read full proposal for it's functions) - Establish a Board for this company which should have multi-stakeholder representation. - Establish two advisory committees as, Technical Advisory Committee, to advise the Board on technical matters on the management of the .ug and the Policy Advisory Committee, to advise the Board on policy related matters - Designate the Uganda Communication Commission as the Sponsor of the .ug while the created company will be the Technical Manager - Introduce competition in the registering of domain names in Uganda . For more details please refer to the attached the full proposal Your views on this proposal are most welcome especially whether this is best approach in managing Uganda's presence on the internet. The question we should keep at the back of our minds is whether the proposed management style [Not for profit organisation (Government and private sector)] is the best way forward for managing such a contentious issue? Best regards, Lillian Visit the I-Network website - www.i-network.or.ug Follow I-Network on Twitter: http://twitter.com/inetwork The I-Network Dgroup is a platform for ICT Knowledge Sharing _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
