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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hopefully this will be the last stupid delay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji@gmail.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"africann@afrinic.net" <africann@afrinic.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday 10 February 2017 at 08:11<br>
<b>To: </b>"africann@afrinic.net" <africann@afrinic.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[AfrICANN-discuss] Finally (hopefully) on .Africa!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333;background:white">LOS ANGELES – 9 February 2017 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (</span>ICANN<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333;background:white">)
announced that a California Superior Court has denied DotConnectAfrica’s (DCA’s) second Motion for Preliminary Injunction to stop the delegation of the .AFRICA generic top-level domain (</span>gTLD<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333;background:white">)
to ZA Central Registry (ZACR).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333;background:white">In accordance with the terms of its Registry Agreement with ZACR for .AFRICA, </span>ICANN<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333;background:white">will now follow
its normal processes towards delegation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2017-02-09-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2017-02-09-en</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sent from my LG G4<br>
Kindly excuse brevity and typos<o:p></o:p></p>
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