• NOTICE: July 18, 2026 – Sophia Bekele ICANNWiki  Record Preserved:

As of May 15, 2026, the ICANNWiki page at https://icannwiki.org/index.php/Sophia_Bekele was live, and a similar citation on IDN pioneers on that page was cited in the CircleID article, Universal Acceptance Day, and the Long Arc of Multilingualism. Shortly after publication, the page was significantly reduced. Testimonials from IDN pioneers validating the CEO’s policy work were removed, and the page was replaced with a minimal version.  Most of her biography (90% has been deleted, including her work at UN, and ISOC which is relevant to Internet governance.  The original page had been publicly accessible for nearly a decade, with 12 archived captures on the Wayback Machine between August 8, 2017, and July 18, 2026.

• NOTICE: July 23, 2026 – DCA Trust ICANNWiki Record Preserved:

Following the above, DCA noticed that all historical ICANNWiki biographies for DotConnectAfrica Trust, which documented the organization’s work in Internet Governance and its role in championing the .africa initiative, had been revised and 90% of them deleted.  Consequently, we checked other pages like the No2DotAfrica Campaign ICANN wiki; similar erasures have occurred.

The original versions, which had been publicly accessible for over twelve years.  DCA has preserved the original records to ensure continued accessibility of the historical record. The preserved archives are listed below.

The timing of the revisions is equally revealing.

The four recent publications below preceded the removal of substantial portions of the documented record.  The revisions occurred shortly after these publications received public attention. Whether that timing was coincidental or responsive, the chronology is noteworthy.

1. Universal Acceptance Day and the Long Arc of Multilingualism (CircleID), documented a testimonial from pioneers of the Internationalized Domain Name movement. That testimonial disappeared immediately after publication and was restored only after I requested a correction. The editor corrected part of the record but declined to fully restore it.  That correction also reduced the solid testimonial to a “public praise”.
2. Kenya Lost .africa. Here Is the Story The Citizen Kenya Left Out (LinkedIn), revisited how Kenya lost the .africa domain and documented key aspects of the institutional history surrounding the dispute, including the role of DotConnectAfrica’s former Chief Technical Officer, who later joined ICANN, together with events examined through the Independent Review Process and related legal proceedings. The article also highlights that the 2026 gTLD round is a financial and procedural minefield and not an easy road ahead.
3. The Attention Economy Was Only the First Layer (LinkedIn) The Attention Economy Was Only the First Layer (LinkedIn) discussed the emergence of the Interest Economy. I referenced a recent case where a source cited that they used AI to analyze my public body of work, concluding that I was among the few practitioners able to speak on AI governance, Internet policy, and digital sovereignty from a position of direct institutional experience. Well, thank you, AI, for that affirmation. But in reaching that assessment, the AI cited my published work on LinkedIn, CircleID, and The Ethical Technocrat, without relying on or even referencing the ICANN Wiki or any Wiki biography. That reinforces where the most comprehensive and authoritative documented record of my work actually resides.
4. Did the AUC-Aligned ZACR Actually Deliver .africa? (LinkedIn), shifted the discussion from historical process to measurable outcomes. It examined the registry’s performance after a decade of operation, documenting approximately 55,000 domain registrations serving a continent of 1.5 billion people, and asked a simple question: what exactly was the objective that justified choosing ZACR over DCA, and was it ever achieved?