[afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live!

[Adiel A. AKPLOGAN]

Dear colleagues,

As announced a few days ago, with effect from February 22nd,
AfriNIC is moving a step ahead in its transition process.
We have effectively started PHASE II of the transition -
operating as a full RIR with a second opinion from other
RIRs -

Consequently, our whois server is online and all resource
requests must be sent directly to hostmaster at afrinic.net.
You must use the various templates available at:

http://www.afrinic.net/documentation.htm#templates

At this point, we do not have something similar to the
'LIR portal' (RIPE NCC) or 'MyAPNIC' (APNIC). All updates
must be done through our e-mail interface. Please find the
necessary information under the Database and Registration
Services section of our web site (www.afrinic.net).

Further more, public information about registration in
the AfriNIC service region is now provided by whois.afrinic.net
(port 43). You can query the server using any regular whois client.
To have access to some advanced features, you may need to use the
RIPE NCC whois client which can be found at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/whois/.

A web interface for whois queries will be online soon.

We will be happy to answer any questions from you regarding this
process. Please send your questions to transition at afrinic.net.

Kind regards.


Adiel A. Akplogan
CEO, AfriNIC
www.afrinic.net