<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>Interesting take there, Michele!</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, the TAS should have been robust enough to take care of such programming issues. While I'm not personally complaining about the extension (and I'm sure some of the new gTLD applicants are currently the happiest people on earth right now), I think it's unfortunate the 29 March deadline for opening TAS accounts didn't enjoy a week's extension!</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Regards,</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div><div><b>Vika Mpisane</b></div><div>ZADNA</div><div>Tel: +27 11 314 0077</div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> "Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" <<a href="mailto:michele@blacknight.ie">michele@blacknight.ie</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> <<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:38:59 +0000<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> "<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [AfrICANN-discuss] RE: TAS Temporarily Offline<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><style>
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<a href="http://www.internetnews.me/2012/04/12/icann-takes-fail-to-a-whole-new-level/">http://www.internetnews.me/2012/04/12/icann-takes-fail-to-a-whole-new-level/</a><br><div><br><div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><div class="BodyFragment"><font size="2"><div class="PlainText">--<br>
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Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,Ireland Company No.: 370845</div></font></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: 16px"><hr tabindex="-1"><div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF88638"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:africann-bounces@afrinic.net">africann-bounces@afrinic.net</a> [<a href="mailto:africann-bounces@afrinic.net">africann-bounces@afrinic.net</a>] on behalf of Glen de Saint Géry [<a href="mailto:Glen@icann.org">Glen@icann.org</a>]<br><b>Sent:</b> 12 April 2012 14:33<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:mail=africann@afrinic.net">mail=africann@afrinic.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [AfrICANN-discuss] TAS Temporarily Offline<br></font><br></div><div></div><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-12apr12-en.htm" target="_blank">http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-12apr12-en.htm</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></p><h1><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">TAS Temporarily Offline<br></span><span class="date-display-single"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">12 April 2012</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></h1><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">ICANN constantly monitors the performance of the TLD Application System (TAS). Recently, we received a report of unusual behavior with the operation of the TAS system. We then identified a technical
issue with the TAS system software.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">ICANN is taking the most conservative approach possible to protect all applicants and allow adequate time to resolve the issue. Therefore, TAS will be shut down until Tuesday at 23:59 UTC - unless
otherwise notified before that time.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">In order to ensure all applicants have sufficient time to complete their applications during the disruption, the application window will remain open until 23:59 UTC on Friday, 20 April 2012.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. If you have any questions, please contact the gTLD Customer Service Center (CSC) via the CSC portal.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Glen de Saint Géry
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">GNSO Secretariat
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org" target="_blank">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://gnso.icann.org" target="_blank">http://gnso.icann.org</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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