To answer you, my answer are two fold One the costs of a domain under .ke is not any clear. Some registrars charge more than the recommended fees of SHS. 2,320 thus driving any potential innovation under .ke domain from coming on board. Interestingly, the registrars claim to promote .ke but in real sense they are killing the initiative. Maybe a Brand Kenya approach can come in handy. KENIC state the costs of registering a .ke domain is Kshs. 2,320 but the registrars will increase the amount to say, Kshs. 4,000, thus making Kenyans prefer going for generic domains which might cost less than the amount charged by registrars to register .ke Maybe KENIC should penalize these registrars charging exorbitantly! The legal and institutional framework is lacking here. Secondly, there is a lack of a national ownership framework that identifies one with .ke. For instance, how many Kenya's diplomatic missions abroad use .com of free email addresses such as yahoo or hotmail? They are as many as you can think of. If you send an email say to German embassy in Kenya, the domain ends with .de while we use say .com. Check Kenya Embassies Worldwide <http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/Kenya/Kenya.html> to verify my case. My thoughts -- Solomon Mburu P.O. Box 19343 - 00202 Nairobi Cell: (+254-0) 735 431041 Man is a gregarious animal and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way to the side of a hill! AND It is better to die in dignity than in the ignomity of ambiguous generosity!