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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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Larus Cloud Service Limited’s requested voice disappeared when the host case ended
Two short orders from the Supreme Court of Mauritius show how a party can have serious commercial or operational reasons to care about a corporate dispute without acquiring an automatic right to enter it. Larus Cloud Service Limited sought to intervene in a case brought by former…
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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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A Plaint Cannot Live on Filing Alone
For nearly six months, an election-related court file sat still. Crystal Web (Pty) Ltd had sued African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) Ltd and four others in `SC/COM/PWS/000596/2022`, but the Supreme Court of Mauritius recorded that the matter had remained idle on the…
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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 Credential That Joined AFRINIC's Ballot to Its Technical Ledger
AFRINIC's warning about a false Board election request exposed a problem larger than the message itself: a single member credential stood close to votes, corporate records and several kinds of Internet resource administration that ought to answer to different grants of authority.
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Who Gets to Choose? The Boundary in the NRO’s AFRINIC Re-engagement Proposal
On 26 March 2023, the Number Resource Organization asked ICANN to help re-engage the AFRINIC community around a fair and transparent Board election with active membership and community involvement. That was a constructive destination for a registry in need of functioning…
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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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The Noun That Held the Procedure Together
On 21 June 2022, AFRINIC’s sixth draft of its working-group guidelines replaced the CEO with the Appeal Committee as the actor whose decision would end one internal appeal. The change was only a few words long. It nevertheless exposed the real subject of the proposal: not…