{"id":57773,"date":"2014-05-16T10:32:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T08:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=57773"},"modified":"2014-05-16T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T11:42:07","slug":"dotjoburg-coming-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/57773\/dotjoburg-coming-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"dotJoburg coming in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZAdotCities domains including, dotJoburg, dotDurban and dotCapetown are expected to be launched on 1 June 2014, according to <a title=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/thetimes\/2014\/05\/16\/dot.joburg-coming-soon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/thetimes\/2014\/05\/16\/dot.joburg-coming-soon\" target=\"_blank\">the Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new domain names will initially be made available to provincial governments and municipalities, with &#8220;the man on the street&#8221; afforded the right to take up the new names from October, the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The launch is phased,&#8221; Vika Mpisane, member of the dotAfrica Steering Committee, run by the ZA Central Registry (formerly Uniforum). Mpisane is also CEO at the ZA Domain Name Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The ZA Central Registry (ZACR) is reported to have forked out as much as R1.9 million (US$185,000) for each of the three applications to Icann &#8211; the world body that oversees the web\u2019s naming conventions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before we launch, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers requires that, for a geographic name, you must allow relevant government entities to reserve names. We have a reserve name list that will be entered into the database,&#8221; Mpisane told the Times.<\/p>\n<p>Trademark owners will be able to register their branded websites as part of a second phase, with a &#8216;premium name phase&#8217; following, whereby\u00a0ZACR will sell off domain names to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then the real public launch will come,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses and members of the public will be able to buy their own dotDurban, dotCapetown and dotJoburg domain names for a wholesale price of R180 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Domains will be sold through registrars, though the ZACR will be wholesaling them.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ZA Central Registry, the dotDurban domain has already undergone Icann&#8217;s pre-delegation testing, with the other two names\u00a0 on the verge of being tested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our target is June 1. But it is dependent on Icann&#8217;s pre-delegation testing process,&#8221; Mpisane said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on ZAdotCities<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/79217-joburg-passed.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/79217-joburg-passed.htmlhttp:\/\/\"><strong>.Joburg domain passed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dot London\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/49569\/dot-london\/\"><strong>Dot London<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZAdotCities domains including, dotJoburg, dotDurban and dotCapetown are expected to be launched on 1 June 2014, according to the Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":57781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7957,26,191],"class_list":["post-57773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-dotjoburg","tag-headline","tag-icann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57773"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57827,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57773\/revisions\/57827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}