<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h1 style="color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-size: 18px; font-family: Helvetica; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><small style="display: block; color: rgb(148, 148, 148); font-weight: normal;" class="">AFRINIC Status</small><br class="">[Recovering] WHOIS DB responses degraded</h1><p align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We believe that we have temporarily mitigated the unexpected load. We will continue to monitor the service closely, and will be working to allow for better scaling in future.</p><p class="m_5689463140972146835mc-template-text-muted m_5689463140972146835affected-components" align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(148, 148, 148); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This incident affects: WHOIS DB Queries and WHOIS web queries</p><p class="m_5689463140972146835mc-template-text-muted m_5689463140972146835mc-template-text-sm" align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(148, 148, 148); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted 7 August 2018 @ 8:24AM UTC</p><hr class="m_5689463140972146835mc-template-hr" style="border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 30px 0px; color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a class="m_5689463140972146835mc-template-link" href="https://afrinic.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=21c6aea56e4a01ac62c2825dc&id=ba61495940&e=9bad309c82" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://afrinic.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D21c6aea56e4a01ac62c2825dc%26id%3Dba61495940%26e%3D9bad309c82&source=gmail&ust=1533716837724000&usg=AFQjCNFvRaT0pKHVadRn0zj2dp2IuRTWRw" style="color: rgb(41, 128, 185);">View our status page →</a></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>