[Excom] Latin America and the Caribbean reach 10 million registered domains

[barrack at aftld.org]

Dear Yaovi,

We shared this statistics with the ICANN team during the Africa Domain 
Name System Forum. You may recall part of my presentation involved 
statistics that the AFTLD Secretariat had obtained after conducting a 
desk survey prior to the Africa Domain Name System Forum. We have 
uploaded the statistics on stats.aftld.org. You will notice that there 
is a significant number of registrations from the registries operated by 
Freenom where the domains are issued for free.
On a separate note and as per the brief from the AFTLD President, we 
have made significant effort in developing the observatory. We are 
currently seeking guidance on how to deal with legal issues around the 
anycast data that we intend to use to populate the observatory. While we 
plan for a partners meeting we welcome your feedback on the Beta system 
stats.aftld.org which us still under developement.

Thank you

Best Regards

Thank you

Best Regards

On 2020-11-20 08:35, Yaovi Atohoun wrote:
> Hi Ali,
> 
> Just sharing this
> https://lactld.org/en/latin-america-and-the-caribbean-reach-10-million-registered-domains/
> [1] .
> 
> Do we have an idea of total number of registrations today for African
> cctLDs?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --
> 
> Yaovi ATOHOUN
> 
> Director,  Stakeholder Engagement & Operations - Africa
> 
> www.icann.org
> 
> From: "president at aftld.org" <president at aftld.org>
> Date: Wednesday, 18 November 2020 at 13:08
> To: Pierre Dandjinou <pierre.dandjinou at icann.org>,
> "YedalyM at africa-union.org" <yedalyM at africa-union.org>, Dawit Bekele
> <bekele at isoc.org>, "ceo at afrinic.net" <ceo at afrinic.net>, Pierre Bonis
> <pierre.bonis at afnic.fr>
> Cc: Yaovi Atohoun <yaovi.atohoun at icann.org>, "oumtana at yahoo.fr"
> <oumtana at yahoo.fr>, "excom at aftld.org" <excom at aftld.org>,
> "barrack at aftld.org" <barrack at aftld.org>
> Subject: [Ext] Update on the African Domain Name System Observatory
> 
> Dear Partners,
> 
> On behalf of Africa Top Level Domains Organization, kindly receive a
> brief update on the African Domain Name System Observatory.
> We have made significant progress with the observatory and have
> developed a beta system that is available at
> _https://stats.aftld.org/_
> 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.
> 
> I'll invite our secretariat to set doodle so that we can plan a
> meeting with you.
> 
> Thank you again for your suppot and confidence to the AfTLD.
> 
> Best Regards.
> 
> Hadji Mmadi ALI
> 
> President of Africa Top Level Domain Organization
> 
> Links:
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> [1] 
> https://lactld.org/en/latin-america-and-the-caribbean-reach-10-million-registered-domains/