1 000 000 $
Full funding and official submission of application fees for 4 candidacies to ICANN.
Crowdfunding campaign · Regulatory urgency
Soft Cap : 1 000 000 $ pour les frais de dossiers ICANN avant le 12/08/2026
Mandatory Soft Cap Objective: Fully fund the official ICANN application fees for 4 gTLDs extensions.
Full funding and official submission of application fees for 4 candidacies to ICANN.
Advanced DNSSEC security audits + technical architecture deployment + operational security.
Deployment of Bouma Roots' 1st physical root server node fully managed on the African continent.
10 reward-based contribution tiers (No financial equity or securities offering) Choose your level of commitment
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ContributeSecure payment via Visa, Mastercard, PayPal or Mobile Money.
For Passes ≥ $100, reserve standard domain name(s) upon payment confirmation.
Domain name reservation confirmed within 48 hours following anti-cybersquatting compliance validation.
SBT vouchers minted at the end of the campaign (activated after the crowdfunding campaign closes).
The GENESIS project, its goals, Passes and contributor journey explained transparently.
Funds are directly allocated to financing the preparation and official submission of applications to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) for the creation of sovereign pan-African internet top-level domains (gTLDs). This includes full payment of administrative and legal filing fees required by ICANN, global technical infrastructure development, and the construction of the 4 portals of the Pan-African Digital House.
ICANN opens application windows for new top-level internet domain extensions very rarely (the last major round was in 2012). The current 2026 application window is a historic and time-limited opportunity. If we do not submit our applications before the closing deadline on August 12, 2026, Africa will have to wait several years before claiming its own internet extensions again.
No. This is a reward-based contribution campaign (providing utility and status-based rewards), with no offering of financial securities, equity, or speculative yield promises.
Each pass grants access to tangible utilities (domain name reservations, SBT digital badges, corporate brand protection, etc.).
Tier 1 — Soft Cap ($1,000,000): The mandatory survival threshold. It fully covers the application fees required by ICANN to secure the formal submission of our candidacies.
Tier 2 — Mid-Cap ($1,500,000): Funds advanced security audits (DNSSEC) and 6 months of payroll for the technical Task Force to guarantee the operational security of the network.
Tier 3 — Hard Cap ($2,000,000+): The infrastructure sovereignty level. It enables the physical deployment of the very 1st root server node on African soil (Cameroon).
Our action plan is modular and fully transparent. Every tranche of approximately $250,000 secures and pays for one specific application to ICANN:
Minimum Success Threshold ($250,000)
If we do not reach this first tier, the campaign is canceled and 100% of funds are automatically refunded with zero fees. If crossed, the first priority application (Business extension) is contractually secured and submitted.
Per additional $250,000 tranche
Each new $250,000 block validates and triggers the submission of the next application (Extension No. 2, then No. 3, then No. 4).
Handling intermediate amounts
If funding stops between tiers (e.g., $350,000), the first $250,000 is locked for the first extension submission, and the remaining $100,000 is immediately injected into the technical security and operational deployment budget of that same extension to ensure its immediate success.
Your contributions are never wasted : they build our digital autonomy, brick by brick, application by application.
La grille est divisée en 3 grandes familles adaptées à tous les profils :
Un SBT (Soulbound Token) est un jeton numérique non transférable émis sur la blockchain. Contrairement à un NFT classique, il ne peut être ni vendu ni échangé.
Il est lié à votre identité numérique à vie et sert de badge de noblesse numérique et de preuve infalsifiable de votre contribution historique en tant que co-fondateur du réseau.
Le bouclier Corporate est un mécanisme de protection préventive contre le cybersquatting.
Il permet aux entreprises et propriétaires de marques (déposées OAPI, OMPI ou internationales) de bloquer en priorité leur nom commercial ainsi que ses variantes directes sur l'extension internet souveraine avant toute ouverture publique, évitant ainsi que des tiers ne squattent leur identité.
Pour garantir une accessibilité maximale sur le continent et au sein de la diaspora, nous acceptons :
Oui, totalement. Nous utilisons des protocoles de chiffrement SSL de niveau bancaire et passons par des agrégateurs certifiés.
Aucune donnée bancaire ou code PIN confidentiel n'est stocké sur nos serveurs.
Le parcours s'effectue en 4 étapes simples :
Pour protéger le patrimoine numérique africain, les termes géographiques, génériques sectoriels (par exemple : banque.roots, afrique.roots) ou à très haute valeur sont réservés et classés comme « Premium ».
Le contrôle sous 48 h garantit qu'un utilisateur n'a pas réservé par inadvertance ou spéculation un terme réservé avec un simple voucher standard. En cas de rejet d'un nom Premium, il vous sera demandé de choisir un autre nom standard.
Les réservations faites pendant la campagne sont des verrouillages prioritaires. L'activation technique complète des noms de domaine aura lieu dès la validation finale du calendrier de déploiement de l'ICANN et la mise en service opérationnelle des registres.
Vos droits d'utilisation (par exemple les 3 ans gratuits inclus dans vos Vouchers) ne commenceront à courir qu'à partir du jour du lancement officiel du registre.
Supporting Bouma Roots means directly contributing to the creation of a Pan-African digital common good. Specifically, it involves financing the preparation for the ICANN 2026 application which requires administrative, legal, regulatory fees, the development of the technical infrastructure that must integrate the creation of the 4 portals of the Pan-African Digital Home.