{"id":10956,"date":"2017-03-10T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/africa-gets-its-own-web-address-with-launch-of-africa\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T17:30:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:30:19","slug":"africa-gets-its-own-web-address-with-launch-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/africa-gets-its-own-web-address-with-launch-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa gets its own web address with launch of .africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People attend a computer training course, as part of the &#039;Afrique Innovation, reinventer les medias\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/C4B8\/production\/_95106305_gettyimages-470370692.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  AFP<figcaption>Image caption                                      The African Union hopes .africa will create a unique online identity for the continent                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">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 &quot;got [its] own digital identity&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The AU says the .africa domain name will &quot;bring the continent together as an internet community&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Addresses can now reflect a company&#039;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<ul>\n<li>Africa Live: More on this and other stories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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&#039;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<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-39231709 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AFPImage caption The African Union hopes .africa will create a unique online identity for the continent Africa now has the unique web address .africa, equivalent to the more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}