Hello UA interested people,

An African look at Universal Acceptance:

I'm a UA Ambassador in South Africa. I'm also the technical side of the ICANN 2023 DNS Study of Africa (Africa Domain Name Industry Study) and have looked at incorporating UA/IDN into the Study. I think some points perhaps need to be stated/shared. I did add one page on Universal Acceptance into our recent Webinar...

The recording for the webinar on the Africa Domain Name Industry Study is available at
 

https://icann.zoom.us/rec/share/Kl81nXeb6aKYg80DF8KxkvDJe91FAVfmyG7zwpCBxBCpjdQrJlLS7zBjNA1Fp9kA.OS2-OfyeyV0P4vXO [icann.zoom.us]

Passcode: L=3Ztagfzk

Note:   More information on the study and the link to the page for comment is available here

 The page I am referring to is....

The numbers are not perfect as we did not get full zones from every African ccTLD.

Africa also has some IDN Domains.... If you look at the (trial) Observatory - you can see...

... again a great lack of information. Sudan did give us all their data though.

Second column is the Count of domains (we also used data from global collection sites - perhaps IDN domains are not "captured") and the third is the DNSSEC Algorithm number (I'm also into DNSSEC).

It would be great to receive proper Zone Files for these IDN Zones - please chat to me!

Several African ccTLDs also support IDN domains ... see above. The Observatory does show the count of IDN names - e.g.

... thus the Observatory is a way to see actual numbers (growth) in the IDN arena of Domain Names in Africa. So if you are interested in seeing such information and have any influence or sway over your local ccTLD - please ask them to contact me.