The mission of the DotAfrica Organisation is:

  • To sponsor, establish and operate a regional Internet namespace with global recognition and regional significance. The namespace is dedicated to the needs of the Pan-African Internet community.

  • To reinvest surpluses in socio-technological advancement initiatives relevant to the Pan-African Internet community.

  • To operate a successful not-for-profit initiative that is a technically sound, leading edge TLD registry for the Pan-African Internet community.

As part of the mission, DotAfrica is committed to contributing to the development of Internet on the African continent and propose to re-invest back proceeds into the social and technological advancement initiatives within the community. A revenue allocation structure will be adopted by the DotAfrica registry to guarantee that a portion of revenues will be directly re-invested into the community through a grant program.
 
::: Openness and Transparency

The DotAfrica Organization intends to operate in an open and transparent manner.

The DotAfrica Organization will maintain a public Web site to post policies and related news to the community.

All Board meeting minutes will be publicly posted online. Formal Board meetings will also be open for observation by the public. The DotAfrica Organization intends to hold its Board meetings in conjunction with the AfNOG and AfriNIC meetings for the convenience of participants and to further encourage the participation of interested observers.

An open Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held during the annual AfNOG/AfriNIC meetings, which are attended by many leaders and active participants from the Internet community in the African region. This meeting will include an open comment session. Minutes of the AGM will also be made publicly available. Critical issues that affect the community (e.g. decision on surplus allocation) will also be open for public comment.

*Notice: for policy changes will be communicated through the website.
::: Initial Officers

Initial Board of directors will be nominated by the sponsoring members and each is appointed for a period of one or two years. At the end of the first year an election is held to replace the board from the entire membership.

The Advisory Council members will be elected by all members, except the Chairman who is nominated by the African Union Chairman of Ministerial ICT committee.

Other officers are being sought and discussions are ongoing on recruitment of key officer for the DotAfrica Organization. The staff is expected to be lean and not exceed 6 professionals during the three year plan.
::: Fiscal Information

We are in negotiations with potential Registry Operators with a plan of 150,000 domains in year 1, 200,000 domain name registrations in year 2 and 300,000 domain registration in the third year. The business plan will be based on these revenue forecast from registrations and costs of registry operation and service costs. Its planned to pay RO $4.00 per name and wholesale to registrars at $8 per name.