On Feb 15, 2017 22:28, "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?
>> >>
>> >> Ali Hussein
>> >> Principal
>> >> Hussein & Associates
>> >> +254 0713 601113
>> >>
>> >> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>> >>
>> >> Skype: abu-jomo
>> >>
>> >> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but
>> >> a
>> >> habit." ~ Aristotle
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Sent from my iPad
>> >>
>> >> 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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