[AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN 59 (Joburg) Tech talk panel on DNSSEC Deployment Challenges

2017-05-02 Thread Mark Elkins
ICANN-59 will be held in Johannesburg at the Sandton convention centre from 26-29 June, 2017. One of the technical days is shared between DNSSEC (morning) and ccTLD Technical Talks (afternoon). We (the DNSSEC Workshop Program Committee) are looking for a few people that would like to participate

Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] AfriDNS - Internet governance at the local level

2017-11-16 Thread Mark Elkins
On 16/11/2017 11:51, Alan Levin wrote: > Hi, > > I've been studying African cctld for many years. I've been working  in the industry for 20+ years (I started running/managing/automating CO.ZA in September 1995) > The cost of registering an African cctld in Uganda / Nigeria / Ghana / > Botswana

Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] AfriDNS - Internet governance at the local level

2017-11-17 Thread Mark Elkins
Some time ago, the ZACR was invited to attend with local government people to tour around Gauteng townships. The primary objective was to have as many businesses become registered as possible, give them VAT numbers - etc. The ZACR was invited along to talk about Domain Names and their value. I was

Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] AfriDNS - Internet governance at the local level

2017-11-19 Thread Mark Elkins
Perhaps there should be a rule that states only African ccTLD and gTLD's managed by African based Registries (i.e. Durban, Joburg, Capetown and Africa) can be used here - i.e. - no more GMAIL or Yahoo (etc) type addresses... I'm quite serious - we should be promoting African e-mail providers using

Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Delegation: ccTLD for South Susan and IDN ccTLD for Mauritania

2019-02-07 Thread Mark Elkins
That's good news. Another African ccTLD. Does anyone know what software system the National Communication Authority (NCA) of Souther Sudan will be using? i.e. an EPP based system like CoCCA?? On 2019/02/07 10:16, Yaovi Atohoun wrote: Hello everyone EN:   You can read more at https://www.ic

Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Fwd: [AfriSIG-Alumni] New ICANN WHOIS Privacy/GDPR guidelines and .Africa

2019-03-30 Thread Mark Elkins
I don't think you need WHOIS privacy protection for dotAfrica domain. Why? - look at the output of a whois for my own posix.africa.. I've removed Redacted and some other noise lines. Domain Name: posix.africa Registry Domain ID: DOM_9E6-AFRICA Registrar WHOIS Server: http://gateway-whois.dns.ne

Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Sad news: we lost one of the early internet pioneers

2019-10-10 Thread Mark Elkins
Sad news indeed. He was certainly a pioneer in the African Internet! On 2019/10/10 11:11, Dandjinou Pierre wrote: Tarek Kamel: May his soul Rest In Peace! Pierre Dandjinou ___ AfrICANN mailing list AfrICANN@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mai

Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] [AFRI-Discuss] Call for topics: Joint AFRALO-AfrICANN meeting for ICANN67

2020-01-10 Thread Mark Elkins
I also like the sound of Barrack's proposal. What exactly does "DNS Abuse" mean though? If it is to try and get all important Domains DNSSEC Signed and for all DNS Resolvers to become DNSSEC aware - that would be a winner in my book! Incidentally - about 50% of all DNS lookups in South Africa

Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Africa Top Level Domains Organization 2019 Annual Report

2020-08-08 Thread Mark Elkins
I'm very curious what the stats are actually measuring... (snap shot for Africa) ISOHOSTS ALL DUPLICATES SLD THREELD 1 ZA6197417 6268058 7064148 22616 2 EG4989280 5004756 1547639 798 3 MA 153009 157364 4355 10751795 4 KE 14203

Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] [AFRI-Discuss] Call for Topics: Joint AFRALO-AfrICANN meeting - ICANN69 (Virtual)

2020-08-26 Thread Mark Elkins
I would also second topics 2, 3 & 4 - especially as I'm now a Universal Acceptance Ambassador! On 2020/08/26 13:41, Lilian Kamara wrote: Dear Sarah , I second topics 2,3 and 4 listed above . Regards, On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:15 PM Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong mailto:abdeldjalil.bac...@gmail.co

Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Call for Topic: Joint AFRALO-AfrICANN meeting - ICANN 76 Community Forum / appel à proposition de thèmes pour la Réunion Conjointe AFRALO-AfrICANN - Forum Communautaire de l'ICA

2023-01-20 Thread Mark Elkins via AfrICANN
#2 - Best practices for DNS operations in Africa! (I'll have just completed presenting with Johan Stenstam two 4-day "Advanced DNS" courses in Jo'burg and Cape Town - all about DNSSEC - etc) On 2023/01/20 01:09, Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong wrote: Hello Dear AFRALO AFRICANN Community members We

Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Une veillée aux chandelles en hommage à Olévié KOUAMI

2023-10-23 Thread Mark Elkins via AfrICANN
I'm English. My French is pretty bad - so I use https://translate.google.com Dear members and friends of the community, It is with deep sadness that we invite you to a vigil in honor of Ayaovi Olévié Agbenyo KOUAMI, who tragically left us on Thursday July 19, 2023 in Lomé. This evening will be