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<p><span>Dear Partners,</span><br /><br /><span>On behalf of Africa Top Level Domains Organization, kindly receive a brief update on the African Domain Name System Observatory.</span><br /><span>We have made significant progress with the observatory and have developed a beta system that is available at <span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;"><em><strong>https://stats.aftld.org/</strong></em></span></span><br /><span>AFTLD has engaged AFRINIC with a request to collaborate on the Africa Domain Name observatory. The two organizations already have a memorandum eunderstanding that covers research as one of the core areas. The request entails using some of the data AFRINIC collects through the anycast infrastructure provided for African country code Top Level Domain registries. Due to the nature of the request and possible legal implications, AFRINIC is consulting internally on the legal ramifications of sharing the data it collects on its anycast platform before availing the same for use on the Africa Domain Name observatory. In the meantime AFTLD continues to explore other avenues of obtaining data pertaining to registrations and deletions of domain names across ccTLDs and other TLDs in Africa to make the observatory dynamic.</span></p>
<p><span>I'll invite our secretariat to set doodle so that we can plan a meeting with you.</span></p>
<p><span>Thank you again for your suppot and confidence to the AfTLD.</span></p>
<p><span>Best Regards.</span></p>
<p><span>Hadji Mmadi ALI</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">President of Africa Top Level Domain Organization </span></p>
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