[Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Annual Financial Statements 2016

[Alan Barrett]

On 14 Jun 2017, at 16:24, Alan Barrett <alan.barrett at afrinic.net> wrote:
> Yes, resources from members who go out of business are recovered.  The recovered resources are quarantined for two years, during which time they are marked as RESERVED in the WHOIS database.  After the ene of he quarantine period, the recovered resources are released to the pool for possible re-use.
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> We do not publicise the names of the members concerned.  The reserved space may be found in raw data published at <ftp://ftp.afrinic.net/pub/stats/afrinic>.

Sorry, I made a mistake above.  The RESERVED status of the quarantined space is not visible through WHOIS.  It is visible through the extended stats files available from <ftp://ftp.afrinic.net/pub/stats/afrinic>.

Alan Barrett