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Africa DNS Forum (ICANN ISOC AFTLD Joint Initiative)

Date: 
Fri 12 Jul 2013 - 08:00 - 17:30
Room: 
Hall 1B

Session Leader: Pierre Dandjinou | VP, Stakeholder Engagement - Africa

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Overview
Agenda Details:
08:00-08:30 TBD  
Morning Session Theme: TBD 
TIME TOPIC SUBTOPIC NOTES
08:30-09:00 Welcome Remarks & Introduction
  • Official from South Africa, ISOC, ICANN, AfTLD
09:00-10:30 Trends, Opportunities & Challenges of the DNS Industry  
10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK  
11:00-12:30 Registries Business: Registry Strategies for Domain Name Growth
  • Successful ccTLD and registry models (Governance, staffing, business model etc)
  • Marketing and awareness strategies (techniques such as sunrise, sunset, top level and second level, domain marketing and pricing, domain auctions, hotnames)
  • Investing in the right technology (automation, new technology, statistics, reporting, DNSSEC)
  • Billing for registries (cross border billing, online payments, mobile payments)
12:30-14:00 BREAK FOR LUNCH  
14:00-15:30 Registrar business: Registrar strategies in a competitive environment
  • domain registrations, making the right investment considerations etc eg outsourcing vs off the shelf vs inhouse built, multihoming, DNSSEC)
  • Above and Beyond domain name registrations (Value add services for a one stop shop eg providing webhosting, email etc)
  • Domain name packing and speculation Registry software for automation
15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK  
16:00-17:30 Legal Issues:  Cross-border domain registrations
  • Open vs Closed registries
  • Cross border domain dispute resolutions
  • WHOIS info in a borderless environment