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<small style="display:block;color:#949494;font-weight:normal" class="">AFRINIC Status</small><br class="">
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Minor WHOIS backend maintenance
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<h2 style="font-size: 16px;" class="">Scheduled for 30 January 2018 at 6:30PM UTC, expected to last 30 minutes.</h2><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;" align="left" class="">A minor config update planned, requires the restart of a backend service process.
<br class="">This may briefly interrupt some WHOIS updates by email or web within the change window.
<br class="">No WHOIS database queries will be affected in any way.</p><p class="m_4204978746893324302mc-template-text-muted" style="color: rgb(148, 148, 148); font-size: 12px; line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;" align="left">Posted 29 January 2018 @ 1:24PM UTC</p>
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