Great milestone, The domain name industry in Africa keeps expanding there is something for everyone. Best Regards On 2/15/17, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
One of the first domains are up and running http://www.nic.africa
EXR-PM1:~ mwendwa$ dig nic.africa
; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> nic.africa
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56316
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;nic.africa. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
nic.africa. 600 IN A 206.223.136.234
;; Query time: 487 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.54#53(127.0.0.54)
;; WHEN: Wed Feb 15 23:24:15 2017
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 44
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On 15 February 2017 at 22:34, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
Waiting for my choice domain . 15 years in the making , fingers crossed.
On 15 Feb 2017 20:33, "Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Mark, you overlooked in the copypaste. Thanks for the resource. Here is the correct IANA link http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/africa.html
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On 15 February 2017 at 20:19, Mark Elkins via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
IANA has been updated: http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/africaI
I can only assume the launch of dotAfrica will be similar to the ZA City Launch, Sunrise/Landrush then GA.
Disclaimer - Please take everything I write as speculation.
On 15/02/2017 18:29, Grace B via kictanet wrote:
That took a long while coming......What are the next steps?
2017-02-15 19:18 GMT+03:00 Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>:
Great stuff...
Are we going directly to registrations or do we have early bird conversations?
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On 15 Feb 2017, at 6:48 PM, Mark Elkins via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
FYI - africa - safe and secure (validating from the root and DNSSEC Signed).
# dig @::1 +dnssec +multiline africa soa
; <<>> DiG 9.11.0-P2 <<>> @::1 +dnssec +multiline africa soa ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 52213 ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 4096 ; COOKIE: 6dcba3ed600a97bd6f7a1e7858a475f8bd4dc44a8b6fb28e (good) ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;africa. IN SOA
;; ANSWER SECTION: africa. 3555 IN SOA zone-ds.registry.net.za. support.registry.net.za. ( 2017021505 ; serial 21600 ; refresh (6 hours) 7200 ; retry (2 hours) 1814400 ; expire (3 weeks) 3600 ; minimum (1 hour) ) africa. 3555 IN RRSIG SOA 8 1 3600 ( 20170301062014 20170214220103 21019 africa. RoQQCCDdh6QTEPkjHjfUZjRUlUgPiRdw0zjjteu/0Rgv 7PGHWfhM7CNLjtOHvtyLMdfS9NXyN6WJ1iqrXnC8A/rC sQeNbCnvK1EjjYwOZ+up4Erom7ChxioYP24zSXxpL1Tb jAyrX1ef7O9tX4VQlhJRmF//Z3iK43Oe7skAiUc= )
;; AUTHORITY SECTION: africa. 86391 IN NS ns1.coza.net.za. africa. 86391 IN NS ns.coza.net.za. africa. 86391 IN NS coza1.dnsnode.net. africa. 86391 IN RRSIG NS 8 1 86400 ( 20170219184438 20170205084603 21019 africa. O+KYJxnFhZoa2iOmnK1BhpxTuse4GoJeKbV0tPbZ4jrA suzgzFqNTzyYxgTraZlXoyRDeUNATeQfsPiVP5A53lz7 JJxDxn5126EYDIrRM38OM6SZrf3ZKHawvDFjYKT2O5Ab sBEy00zp3dzQ7N5lq591ExrYvf9kwPMImHt1MnQ= )
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns.coza.net.za. 172754 IN A 206.223.136.200 ns1.coza.net.za. 172754 IN A 66.135.62.20 coza1.dnsnode.net. 172754 IN A 194.146.106.74
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