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    <p>IANA has been updated:
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/africaI">http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/africaI</a></p>
    <p>I can only assume the launch of dotAfrica will be similar to the
      ZA City Launch, Sunrise/Landrush then GA.<br>
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    Disclaimer - Please take everything I write as speculation.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/02/2017 18:29, Grace B via
      kictanet wrote:<br>
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          style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">That took a long while
          coming......What are the next steps? <br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">2017-02-15 19:18 GMT+03:00 Ali Hussein
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              <div>Great stuff...</div>
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                      style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Twitter:
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                      style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Skype:
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                      style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">LinkedIn: <a
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                <div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"We
                    are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is
                    not an act but a habit."  ~ Aristotle</span></div>
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                    On 15 Feb 2017, at 6:48 PM, Mark Elkins via kictanet
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                    <div class="h5"><span>FYI - africa - safe and secure
                        (validating from the root and DNSSEC Signed).</span><br>
                      <span></span><br>
                      <span># dig @::1 +dnssec +multiline africa soa</span><br>
                      <span></span><br>
                      <span>; <<>> DiG 9.11.0-P2
                        <<>> @::1 +dnssec +multiline africa
                        soa</span><br>
                      <span>; (1 server found)</span><br>
                      <span>;; global options: +cmd</span><br>
                      <span>;; Got answer:</span><br>
                      <span>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY,
                        status: NOERROR, id: 52213</span><br>
                      <span>;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2,
                        AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4</span><br>
                      <span></span><br>
                      <span>;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:</span><br>
                      <span>; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 4096</span><br>
                      <span>; COOKIE: 6dcba3ed600a97bd6f7a1e7858a475<wbr>f8bd4dc44a8b6fb28e
                        (good)</span><br>
                      <span>;; QUESTION SECTION:</span><br>
                      <span>;africa.            IN SOA</span><br>
                      <span></span><br>
                      <span>;; ANSWER SECTION:</span><br>
                      <span>africa.            3555 IN    SOA <a
                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="http://zone-ds.registry.net.za"
                          target="_blank">zone-ds.registry.net.za</a>.</span><br>
                      <span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="http://support.registry.net.za"
                          target="_blank">support.registry.net.za</a>. (</span><br>
                      <span>                <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="tel:%28201%29%20702-1505"
                          value="+12017021505" target="_blank">2017021505</a>
                        ; serial</span><br>
                      <span>                21600      ; refresh (6
                        hours)</span><br>
                      <span>                7200       ; retry (2 hours)</span><br>
                      <span>                1814400    ; expire (3
                        weeks)</span><br>
                      <span>                3600       ; minimum (1
                        hour)</span><br>
                      <span>                )</span><br>
                      <span>africa.            3555 IN    RRSIG SOA 8 1
                        3600 (</span><br>
                      <span>                20170301062014
                        20170214220103 21019 africa.</span><br>
                      <span>                <wbr>RoQQCCDdh6QTEPkjHjfUZjRUlUgPiR<wbr>dw0zjjteu/0Rgv</span><br>
                      <span>                <wbr>7PGHWfhM7CNLjtOHvtyLMdfS9NXyN6<wbr>WJ1iqrXnC8A/rC</span><br>
                      <span>                <wbr>sQeNbCnvK1EjjYwOZ+<wbr>up4Erom7ChxioYP24zSXxpL1Tb</span><br>
                      <span>                <wbr>jAyrX1ef7O9tX4VQlhJRmF//<wbr>Z3iK43Oe7skAiUc=
                        )</span><br>
                      <span></span><br>
                      <span>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:</span><br>
                      <span>africa.            86391 IN NS <a
                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="http://ns1.coza.net.za" target="_blank">ns1.coza.net.za</a>.</span><br>
                      <span>africa.            86391 IN NS <a
                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="http://ns.coza.net.za" target="_blank">ns.coza.net.za</a>.</span><br>
                      <span>africa.            86391 IN NS <a
                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="http://coza1.dnsnode.net"
                          target="_blank">coza1.dnsnode.net</a>.</span><br>
                      <span>africa.            86391 IN RRSIG NS 8 1
                        86400 (</span><br>
                      <span>                20170219184438
                        20170205084603 21019 africa.</span><br>
                      <span>                O+<wbr>KYJxnFhZoa2iOmnK1BhpxTuse4GoJe<wbr>KbV0tPbZ4jrA</span><br>
                      <span>                <wbr>suzgzFqNTzyYxgTraZlXoyRDeUNATe<wbr>QfsPiVP5A53lz7</span><br>
                      <span>                <wbr>JJxDxn5126EYDIrRM38OM6SZrf3ZKH<wbr>awvDFjYKT2O5Ab</span><br>
                      <span>                <wbr>sBEy00zp3dzQ7N5lq591ExrYvf9kwP<wbr>MImHt1MnQ=
                        )</span><br>
                      <span></span><br>
                      <span>;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:</span><br>
                      <span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="http://ns.coza.net.za" target="_blank">ns.coza.net.za</a>.
                               172754 IN A 206.223.136.200</span><br>
                      <span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="http://ns1.coza.net.za" target="_blank">ns1.coza.net.za</a>.
                           172754 IN A 66.135.62.20</span><br>
                      <span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="http://coza1.dnsnode.net"
                          target="_blank">coza1.dnsnode.net</a>.
                           172754 IN A 194.146.106.74</span><br>
                      <span></span><br>
                      <span></span><br>
                      <span></span><br>
                      <span>-- </span><br>
                      <span>Mark James ELKINS  -  Posix Systems -
                        (South) Africa</span><br>
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Mark James ELKINS  -  Posix Systems - (South) Africa
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