<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-48cce759-7fff-c7a2-6788-c199790c6ef2" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">Dear colleagues,</font></span></p><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We would like to inform the community that we experienced intermittent service. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">degradation affecting our authoritative DNS infrastructure starting on Friday, </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3 April 2026. </span></font></p><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This also had a temporary impact on some related services hosted </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">at our primary datacenter.</span></font></p><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">The issue was identified and appropriate mitigation measures were implemented.</font></span></p><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All services have since been fully restored and are operating normally. We </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">continue to monitor closely.</span></font></p><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">We thank the community for its patience and understanding.</font></span></p><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 3pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">hesitate to </span><a href="https://www.afrinic.net/contact">contact us</a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></font></p><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">AFRINIC Team</font></span></div></div></body></html>