there was a thread sometime back on high cost of .co.ke domains because of volumes / the money is used to fund KENIC etc ... here is an idea i hope someone at KENIC can make use of : presently it isnt possible to buy <my domain name>.ke (only <my domain>.co.ke ... or <my domain>.or.ke ...). if KENIC allowed purchase of secondary TLDs i.e. <my domain name>.ke they could actually ask for higher prices for certain domain names : e.g. --- http://mi.ke (i am sure there are many Mikes in the world willing to pay good money for that domain) --- http://clar.ke , http://broo.ke apart from names there are english words ending with ke ... : --- http://li.ke http://ba.ke (some bakery i guess ?) http://sna.ke Here is a time article from 1999 (about the nation of tonga who marketed the .to tld ..... by 1999 they had sold 17,000 domains at $100 / 2years ... thats already 17 million dollars back in 1999 ...when the dollar was actually worth something ) <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,26349,00.html>