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DCA criticized AUC's plan to implement the EOI submission competition process for application endorsement. DCA claimed that the AUC’s objective for accountability and transparency was "hollow and unbelievable," as the letter they issues references the previous endorsement issued to DCA, however fails to acknowledge the previous endorsement issued by Chairman Ping. Furthermore, DCA pointed out that the EOI process would be biased, as the [[AU Task Force]] had already expressed its support for [[AfTLD]] during the 2011 annual African [[ccTLD]] event in Ghana. DCA encouraged all organizations to disregard the AU EOI process and asked AUC to cease the request.<ref>[http://www.prlog.org/11503736-yes2dotafrica-say-no-to-african-union-expression-of-interest-eoi-for-dotafrica.html Yes2DotAfrica Say "No" to African Union Expression of Interest (EOI) for DotAfrica]</ref><ref>[http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102516344150-101/Post_Event_Press_release_final+AftLD.pdf event in Accra]</ref>
DCA criticized AUC's plan to implement the EOI submission competition process for application endorsement. DCA claimed that the AUC’s objective for accountability and transparency was "hollow and unbelievable," as the letter they issues references the previous endorsement issued to DCA, however fails to acknowledge the previous endorsement issued by Chairman Ping. Furthermore, DCA pointed out that the EOI process would be biased, as the [[AU Task Force]] had already expressed its support for [[AfTLD]] during the 2011 annual African [[ccTLD]] event in Ghana. DCA encouraged all organizations to disregard the AU EOI process and asked AUC to cease the request.<ref>[http://www.prlog.org/11503736-yes2dotafrica-say-no-to-african-union-expression-of-interest-eoi-for-dotafrica.html Yes2DotAfrica Say "No" to African Union Expression of Interest (EOI) for DotAfrica]</ref><ref>[http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102516344150-101/Post_Event_Press_release_final+AftLD.pdf event in Accra]</ref>
<big><i>DCA Opposes Reserve Names by </i></big>
One outcome of the African Agenda that emanated from the Experts Meeting and the African Ministerial Round-Table was the proposal to include DotAfrica, DotAfrique, DotAfriqiyah, and similar name strings in any language in the List of Top-Level Reserved Names for the benefit of the African Union in order to make these names unavailable to any other prospective applicant during the new gTLD applications round. <ref>[www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/african-union-communique-21oct11-en.pdf Dakar Communique – ICANN Areas for Engagement]</ref>
The idea behind the extraordinary proposal was to reserve the names so as to enable the African Union benefit from the special legislative protection this would offer the inter-governmental organization, thereby giving it the leverage to separately negotiate and delegate the DotAfrica gTLD name string outside the ICANN new gTLD programme. This would put the power of determining the very future of DotAfrica outside the official purview and oversight of ICANN; and give the AU Commission additional powers on top of what it already has as a key endorser of the DotAfrica geographical TLD.
DCA therefore went ahead to draw its voice against the reservation <ref>[http://rogue.su/internet-war-scramble-for-africa/ Dot Africa soap]</ref>. of the names .africa ,.afrique and .afriqya , suggestions that had been forwarded after a ministerial round table that preceded the Senegal ICANN meeting. The Addition of these names to ICANNs reserved list would have jeopardized the .Africa applications in the current new gTLD opening.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9bRq1QTQVkg”/ DCA Defends its Opposition to the Experts Meeting Agenda of the DotAfrica Task Force]</ref>.
The reservation of these names would have meant that all the applications of the .africa gTLD would have been annulled , however in a response ICANN officials promised to follow the Applicants Guide Book to the later in making all the decisions that would affect any new prospective gTLD. ICANN responded<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/crocker-to-ibrahim-08mar12-en Letter from Steve Crocker to Elham M.A. Ibrahim]</ref> to the Communique presented by the officials of the Pre-Senegal Ministerial roundtable, and eventually the names were not reserved .
Africa presented 17 applications and dotafrica was among them.
==Objection to DCA Application==
==Objection to DCA Application==