Severe Penalties Deter Digital Entrepreneurship

This provision imposes business-ending penalties for non-compliance with mandatory .gh domain registration: annual fines up to 10,000 penalty units, license revocation, and two-year public procurement exclusion. For digital startups and SMEs—the primary drivers of innovation—these penalties create existential risks over technical compliance matters. The undefined "repeated non-compliance" threshold and lack of explicit cure periods create enforcement uncertainty that deters digital experimentation. Combined with 19 requiring ALL entities to use .gh domains, this effectively mandates participation in government infrastructure under threat of business exclusion—a significant departure from innovation-friendly regulatory approaches that allow digital autonomy.