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The affidavit AFRINIC could not author
In March 2023, AFRINIC had lawyers but filed no response affidavit to a motion lodged by Cloud Innovation Ltd. The missing document exposed a narrow yet consequential institutional failure: a private technical registry may keep operating and counsel may keep appearing, while no…
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The Door the Court Closed: Why AFRINIC’s 23 June Ballot Room Had Its Own Legal Status
The most revealing feature of the TISPA interim order was not simply that an election stopped. It was that the Supreme Court of Mauritius stopped the room separately—isolating a physical poll, its paper trail and its conditions of return from the electronic channel that carried…
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The ballot that had not yet begun
Three days before AFRINIC's electronic Board ballot was due to open, a Mauritius court stopped that remote channel in its own operative sentence. The precision of the restraint matters: it exposed an electronic vote as a governance mechanism with a launch, a legal state and…
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The receiver fixed 30 June as the deadline for Board reconstitution
On 21 April 2025, AFRINIC's receiver published two dates that compressed a difficult institutional transition into a visible public clock: an election on 23 June and completion of Board reconstitution by 30 June. The dates gave members a focal point, but the communiqué did not…
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The Minute Authority Changed Hands at AFRINIC
At 14:30 on 12 February 2025, the public record marks a precise institutional handover: the Official Receiver ceased to be the identified receiver of AFRINIC, and Gowtamsingh Dabee became the named receiver in that office's place. The importance of that minute lies not in the…
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Restored, Not Merely Unblocked: The Court’s Operative Choice for AFRINIC
On 15 October 2024, the Court of Civil Appeal did more than dispose of an appeal brought without valid corporate authority. It expressly restored the 12 September 2023 order that had placed AFRINIC under a preservation and governance-reconstitution mandate. That separate remedial…
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The AFRINIC Appeal Stopped Before Two Other Gates
The appeal ended at the threshold of corporate authority. That result was decisive, but it did not answer everything the parties had put before the Court: one question concerned permission from the Official Receiver, and another concerned statutory leave from the first-instance…
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Holding the Ring: Where AFRINIC’s Receiver’s Mandate Ended
The Supreme Court of Mauritius gave the Official Receiver enough authority to keep a disabled company intact and restore its governing organs. It did not turn temporary custody of AFRINIC into a licence to govern the Internet or decide the rights attached to number resources.
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Holding the Ring: Where AFRINIC’s Receiver’s Mandate Ended
The Supreme Court of Mauritius gave the Official Receiver enough authority to keep a disabled company intact and restore its governing organs. It did not turn temporary custody of AFRINIC into a licence to govern the Internet or decide the rights attached to number resources.
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Holding the Ring: Where AFRINIC’s Receiver’s Mandate Ended
The Supreme Court of Mauritius gave the Official Receiver enough authority to keep a disabled company intact and restore its governing organs. It did not turn temporary custody of AFRINIC into a licence to govern the Internet or decide the rights attached to number resources.
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Holding the Ring: Where AFRINIC’s Receiver’s Mandate Ended
The Supreme Court of Mauritius gave the Official Receiver enough authority to keep a disabled company intact and restore its governing organs. It did not turn temporary custody of AFRINIC into a licence to govern the Internet or decide the rights attached to number resources.
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Five restraints, one corporate perimeter: what the Mauritius Court froze at AFRINIC
Relocation, takeover, merger, restructuring and management control were not five ways of describing the same danger. Together, they drew a boundary around the legal home, ownership, organisation and command of a private registry at a moment when its ordinary governance could not…
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The AFRINIC Election Injunction That Lasted 497 Days
Larus Cloud obtained a court restraint over a Board election in May 2022. By the time the order was discharged in September 2023, the election problem had passed into a different legal structure, making the injunction's long, little-explained lifespan the more important…
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The Doorway and the Dormant File: Eddy Kayihura’s Section 136 Application
When a former chief executive’s court application concerning AFRINIC was set aside, the decisive fact was not his title, his history at the registry or a judicial answer to the corporate dispute. It was that the file had remained idle. The short order shows why the distinction…
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The Motion to Hold AFRINIC Still Without Owning the Numbers
On 7 March 2023, Cloud Innovation Ltd asked the Supreme Court of Mauritius to stop AFRINIC from changing its corporate shape and to appoint the Official Receiver to preserve its assets and business value. The application in `SC/COM/MOT/000156/2023` was a disputed request under…
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When the Registry Met Ordinary Law: Larus Cloud’s 2023 Injunction Against AFRINIC
On 31 January 2023, a Mauritian judge temporarily stopped AFRINIC and Executive Services Limited from giving effect to a written directors’ resolution touching six of the registry’s most consequential corporate controls. The order did not settle the merits or hand Larus Cloud…
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The Case That Went Quiet Before It Could Become a Rule
Crystal Web asked the Supreme Court of Mauritius to stay `SC/COM/MOT/000500/2022` until it obtained leave to intervene. Its linked application, `SC/COM/WRT/000509/2022`, then sat idle on the e-filing system from 21 October 2022. After a circular dated 7 February 2023 drew no…
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The Injunction That Lost Its Forum: Seychelles, AFRINIC and the Limits of Cross-Border Relief
An order protecting a registry member’s position can look operationally decisive while resting on a procedural foundation that remains contestable. In *Cloud Innovation Ltd v African Network Information Centre Ltd*, the Supreme Court of Seychelles removed its own interim…
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When Private Coordination Looks Upward: The NRO’s Mauritius Appeal
On 12 July 2022, the Number Resource Organization published a letter asking two Mauritian officials to attend to pressures on AFRINIC after court orders had affected the registry’s bank access and director election. The appeal came from four executives of AFRINIC’s peer…
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AFRINIC Did Not Oppose the Motion—and the Court Still Set It Aside
Silvio Cabral Almada came to court through a narrow corporate-rescue provision, and AFRINIC said it did not entity. Yet an older order already occupied the ground on which the new request would have operated. The result shows why registry prominence, corporate standing, judicial…