If you want to register a domain name with a Ugandan country code, .ug, the man to speak to is Charles Musisi, an Internet entrepreneur who has managed the country's domain names over the past decade.
However, Mr Musisi is now engaged in a dispute with the industry regulator, Uganda Communications Commission, over the right to manage the domain registry.
UCC officials want to take over the administration of the registry in order to make domain names cheaper and to increase Internet use in Uganda.
There are currently about 50,000 Ugandans who regularly use the Internet and at least 100,000 have email accounts.
"We think the regulator should be in charge of administration of the domain names to make them cheaper and to achieve universal access of the internet in the country, UCC's corporate affairs manager Fred Otunnu said.
But Mr Musisi says there is no need to take from him the administration of the domain, a responsibility he got from the US-based Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), because he has neither mismanaged it nor failed to effectively serve the local internet community.
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