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<div>While this is good news for registrars everywhere bear in mind that a LOT of the registries still have an insurance requirement.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Victor NDONNANG<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Organization: </span>NV Consulting<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Victor NDONNANG, "<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>"<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Saturday 3 October 2015 at 4:51 a.m.<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>"<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN Board waives Registrar insurance requirement<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thank you for sharing Pierre,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">This a great news! Especially for prospective registrars from Africa. Now that we have this barrier removed, I hope we will soon reach the number of 25 (MIG Works,
Addis Ababa 2013) ICANN Accredited Registrars in Africa…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Victor.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Dandjinou Pierre [<a href="mailto:pdandjinou@gmail.com">mailto:pdandjinou@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 1, 2015 1:07 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN Board waives Registrar insurance requirement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This may be of interest for African registrars!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">In case you haven’t seen the announcement yet, I just wanted to alert you that the Board waived the RAA insurance requirement ,</span><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-waives-registrar-insurance-requirement-levels-playing-field-for-registrars-globally" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-waives-registrar-insurance-requirement-levels-playing-field-for-registrars-globally</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">.
This is being referred to the GNSO Council so there might be more work on this topic, but for the time being the insurance requirement is waived for all registrars. </span><br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pierre Dandjinou<br>
Cotonou - 229 90 087784 / 66566610<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">skype : sagbo1953<o:p></o:p></p>
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