{"id":33143,"date":"2017-03-11T12:36:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T12:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/africa-gets-its-own-web-address-with-launch-of\/"},"modified":"2017-03-11T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T12:36:38","slug":"africa-gets-its-own-web-address-with-launch-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/africa-gets-its-own-web-address-with-launch-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa gets its own web address with launch of .africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Africa now has the unique web address .africa, equivalent to the more familiar .com, following its official launch by the African Union.}<\/p>\n<p>AU commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma hailed its creation as the moment when Africa &#8220;got [its] own digital identity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The AU says the .africa domain name will &#8220;bring the continent together as an internet community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Addresses can now reflect a company&#8217;s interest in the whole of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a mobile phone company could create mobile.africa to show its Africa-wide presence, or a travel company could set up travel.africa.<\/p>\n<p>Icann, the body that establishes these addresses known as generic Top-Level Domains, approved the move, after lobbying by the AU.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign was spearheaded by a South African company ZA Central Registry (ZACR), which will now be responsible for registering .africa names.<\/p>\n<p>ZACR&#8217;s boss Lucky Masilela said that .africa addresses could cost as little as $18 (\u00a315), AFP news agency quotes him as saying, and registration will start in July.<\/p>\n<p>Other domain names recently created by Icann, include .fun, .phone and .hair.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18711 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_95106305_gettyimages-470370692.jpg\" alt=\"The African Union hopes .africa will create a unique online identity for the continent\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Africa now has the unique web address .africa, equivalent to the more familiar .com, following its official launch by the African Union.} AU commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma hailed its creation as the moment when Africa &#8220;got [its] own digital identity&#8221;. The AU says the .africa domain name will &#8220;bring the continent together as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33143"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33143"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}