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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…
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Who Held the Proposal After Consensus? AFRINIC’s Unfinished Withdrawal Rule
On 28 July 2022, AFRINIC recorded consensus, a report sent to its Board, and an author’s withdrawal against the same proposal. The record captures a procedural collision but does not settle it. What it reveals is a missing transfer point between personal authorship, collective…
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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…
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The Empty Office: When AFRINIC’s Litigation Mandate Lost Its Instruction Point
On 4 November 2022, Eddy Kayihura ceased to be AFRINIC’s chief executive officer. The private company remained, its disputes remained and its lawyers remained available, but the human being whom an earlier Board resolution had authorised to instruct those lawyers no longer…
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The Injunction That Split the Office From the Seat
On 30 June 2022, a Mauritian court temporarily stopped action under AFRINIC’s sweeping litigation delegation and stopped its chief executive from acting as an ex officio director until an election reconstituted the Board. The importance of the order lies not in any final…
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Consensus at the Threshold: AFRINIC’s Draft 3 Handoff Without Ratification
On 28 July 2022, AFRINIC’s Policy Development Working Group crossed one procedural threshold and stopped before another: consensus on Update PDP Draft 3 was announced, and the chairs sent a ratification report to the Board. The distinction between those acts and a Board decision…
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Four Lamps, One Boundary: What the Peer RIR Message to AFRINIC Could—and Could Not—Authorize
Four registry executives turned AFRINIC’s difficulties into a matter of global concern while drawing a line around their own authority. Their June 2022 message is most useful not as a declaration of institutional solidarity, but as an unfinished test of what one private technical…
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The Five Days Between a Right and a Vote
On 28 May 2022, AFRINIC’s published election timeline closed proxy registration and appointment for a Board and Governance Committee election due on 3 June. That five-day interval looks like a small piece of meeting administration. In practice, it was the space in which a…
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When a Meeting-Triggered Office Has No Meeting to End It
Resolution 202206.699 gave two AFRINIC board officers a term measured not by a date but by a sequence: the 2023 Annual General Members’ Meeting, followed by the first Board meeting after it. That formulation can bridge an ordinary transition. It becomes unstable when the sequence…
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The pledge that doubled under strain: AFRINIC’s joint-stability paradox
In a terse April 2022 resolution, AFRINIC changed one figure from USD 50,000 to USD 100,000. The record is striking not because it proves that money moved—it does not—but because a registry facing documented legal and banking strain remained on the contributor’s side of a joint…
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Five routes to one duty: AFRINIC’s 2022 Appeal Committee and the meaning of an independent seat
AFRINIC filled five Appeal Committee seats through five prescribed experience channels in April 2022. That architecture promised continuity and informed review, yet its real test lay elsewhere: whether each route ended in a person exercising independent judgment, rather than in…
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When the Ledger Opens the Ballot: AFRINIC’s 2022 Good-Standing Gate
On 3 June 2022, a quiet administrative output sat between an AFRINIC Resource Member and an internal vote: good standing. That output condensed contracts, membership formalities, fee dates, account age, contact authority and portal status into a practical yes or no. The…