The African Domain Name System Forum (AfDNSF), 2014 was succesfully hosted in Abuja, Nigeria. The presentation of issues by resource persons, feedback from the participants and discussions and deliberations that went on for the three days of the Africa Internet Governance Forum have given rise to the following recommendations on the various issues discussed:
Monetizing Africa’s Top Level Domains
- Creation of more awareness through road shows, one-to-one awareness and other possible means
Registries Business: Growing the African Domain Name (Reseller Friendly TLD Policies)
- Creation of more awareness through road shows, one-to-one awareness and other possible means
- Development of local contents
- Creating viable policies that will be of benefit to the growth of the African Domain Name
- Improving the technicality through training of Africans
- Domains should be better packaged and not over-priced
Reseller: Taxation and Domain Names
- Reduction in tax for resellers as this will lead to a reduction in the cost of registering domain names
TLD Marketing, whose responsibility is it?
- All stakeholders should be made aware that they all have the responsibilities to market TLDs
Registry Payment Solutions
- E-payment and cash payment should run in parallel and not just e-payment or cash payment alone
At the end of the Forum, the participants expressed their sincere gratitude to the hosts, sponsors, people and government of Nigeria for a successful hosting of the AfDNS Forum in Abuja, Nigeria and the organisaers expressed their warm and sincere gratitude to all the participants from Nigeria and outside Nigeria as well as the remote participants.
