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Registry Governance
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When an Abuse Mailbox Becomes a Threat to Address Recognition
AFRINIC’s abuse-contact rule begins with an ordinary directory question: can somebody reach the operator responsible for receiving a report? Its staff impact statement, however, connects persistent non-compliance to possible termination of the Registration Service Agreement.…
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No Transfer Is Complete Without AFRINIC’s Written Approval and Registry Update
AFRINIC’s ratified transfer package places two institutional acts between a private bargain and the registry’s account of that bargain: an express written approval and a later database update. Those acts matter because an accurate number-resource ledger cannot change itself. But…
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ICANN entered AFRINIC's winding-up case after Cloud Innovation stopped objecting. That was not a merits ruling
The order that put ICANN inside the AFRINIC winding-up litigation is only two pages long. Its decisive sentence does not endorse a theory of stewardship, continuity or ownership. It says the respondent was no longer objecting, so the Court granted ICANN leave to intervene.
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The Approval Sentence AFRINIC Cannot Treat as an Authority Instrument
On 12 March 2026, the people AFRINIC described as its Board said that a court-appointed receiver still awaiting formal discharge had been approving IP address allocations and assignments. The disclosure answers one operational question while opening a more consequential…
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AFRINIC’s Mandatory Abuse Contact and the Limits of Registry Power
AFRINIC’s Mandatory Abuse Contact and the Limits of Registry Power intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The…
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AFRINIC’s Legal Committee and the Missing Chain of Command
Ben Roberts was given a chair and a formidable brief: take stock of every ongoing AFRINIC case, make better use of legal resources and impose coherence on the strategy. What the public has not yet been given is the institutional machinery that could turn that brief into…
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AFRINIC said its transfer rule would keep members from leaving. The authority fight is still open
Six months after AFRINIC ratified a policy that keeps resources issued from its pool inside regional transfer channels, its own case list still labels a lawsuit against that ratification as ongoing. The policy-development record can show how a proposal advanced; it cannot by…
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AFRINIC-36 and the missing instruments behind joint convening
AFRINIC’s first Public Policy Meeting after a long institutional vacuum was presented through three subtly different formulas: the Board acted after consulting the receiver, the Board convened in agreement with him, and the completed event was jointly convened by both. Those…
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The AFRINIC Exit Rule Ratified but Not Switched On
AFRINIC’s February 2026 transfer policy sorts number resources by origin and then gives them unequal routes out of its service region: Legacy and imported “Global” resources may cross the boundary, while ordinary AFRINIC-pool “Regional” resources may not. That distinction does…
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The Ratification That Outran Its Authority: AFRINIC’s Dormant Transfer Policy Returns
On 4 February 2026, AFRINIC declared a long-dormant number-resource transfer proposal ratified. The announcement was brief; its consequences were not. Behind it lies an unresolved chain of consensus, corporate power, receivership, litigation and unfinished implementation—and a…
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AFRINIC’s Three-Year Audit Still Needs an Authority Trail
AFRINIC’s three overdue audits answered a real need for financial visibility. They did not answer who lawfully appointed the auditor, who fixed the fee, which legal entity accepted the engagement, or whether a later member vote could cure an earlier gap. The distinction matters…
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The purported Board and the undischarged receiver created a temporary dual-control transition
When two offices can appear to give an instruction in AFRINIC’s name, the practical question for a staff member, network operator, bank or contractor is not whether those offices say they are collaborating. It is whose decision binds, whose objection stops it, whose signature…
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AFRINIC still has not published the result of its $3.29m legal-spend vote
Forty-six days after members were due to decide whether to approve four years of accounts, AFRINIC's public AGMM page still shows the proposed resolutions but no result, tally or 2026 minutes. The missing record leaves members unable to tell what was approved—and whether anyone…
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AFRINIC’s post-June-2022 review: an audit line is not a power to erase
AFRINIC’s purported new Board drew a line through June 2022 and placed every Resource Member joining after it under review, without publishing why that date governs, how individual cases will be tested, or what protects running networks while the legal questions remain open. The…
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Eight Names, No Tally: AFRINIC’s Unfinished Board-Authority Chain
AFRINIC announced a person for every elected Board seat on 12 September 2025, but its own notice withheld every candidate total promised by the election guidelines. That omission matters because the notice was only one transition in a longer chain—from seven contested seats and…
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AFRINIC’s USD 20,000 top-tier fee—and the denominator history did not preserve
On 27 April 2005, AFRINIC recorded unanimous approval of a one-third increase in the annual fee for its highest IPv4 LIR billing band. The arithmetic is simple; the institutional consequences are not. The surviving record shows a fee-linked exposure at the open-ended > /14 tier…
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The USD 6,000 Question Behind AFRINIC’s Large-LIR Fee Rise
AFRINIC’s reported decision in Maputo to lift the Large IPv4 LIR annual fee from USD 7,000 to USD 13,000 was arithmetically clear and economically consequential, yet the surviving record leaves the essential implementation ledger unfinished: which members were billed, when the…
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Eleven Days Is Not Thirty: How AFRINIC-2 Kept Three Late Proposals Out of Consensus
AFRINIC's first policy meeting after recognition faced an institutional test disguised as calendar arithmetic. Three proposals arrived on the public list only ten or eleven days before the 27 April 2005 policy session. The meeting discussed them, but it did not convert that…
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The Middle Pays More: What AFRINIC’s 2005 Medium Fee Can—and Cannot—Explain
AFRINIC’s decision to lift the standard annual fee for a Medium local internet registry from USD 5,000 to USD 6,500 looks precise, but precision in a price is not the same as precision in its justification. The surviving record makes it possible to see how the charge…
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A US$100 doorway into AFRINIC: what the 2005 associate-fee cut did—and did not—buy
AFRINIC’s decision to reduce its annual fee for membership without allocated number resources from US$400 to US$100 was more than a price edit and less than a constitutional revolution. Read against the constitution in force immediately before the decision, it lowered the cash…