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

[barrack at aftld.org]

Dear Yaovi,

As per the desk survey document we shared the total number of domains in 
the Region are 10,702,608.

Thank you

Best Regards


On 2020-11-20 10:15, barrack at aftld.org wrote:
> 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:
>> ------
>> [1] 
>> https://lactld.org/en/latin-america-and-the-caribbean-reach-10-million-registered-domains/
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