<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Mark </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Thanks for sharing. That Cameroon example is important. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I've been following this discourse for a few days and I'm getting the feeling that no one in the community is supporting a shut down right? </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Or is there among us that do support a shut down? </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">If we then all agree that an Internet Shutdown in any African country is unacceptable then instead of this back and forth which will lead nowhere why don't we as a community agree on how best to discourage and dialogue across Africa to ensure we don't experience the Cameroon example? </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">For example in a Kenya we have gotten a commitment from the Communication Authority that there will be no Internet Shutdown.<br><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 14 May 2017, at 11:48 AM, Mark Elkins <<a href="mailto:mje@posix.co.za">mje@posix.co.za</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>With regard to the damage a shutdown can do:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Many of you will know that I am part of a team who has put together a</span><br><span>Paper on behalf of ICANN - the project which we call the African DNS</span><br><span>Market Study. This includes getting ccTLD stats from all African</span><br><span>countries. Because of the difficulty of getting responses from the whole</span><br><span>of the African ccTLD community, we also draw upon what other researchers</span><br><span>have done. We did our first count back in November, 2016.</span><br><span></span><br><span>One Data Source we used was DomainTools:</span><br><span><a href="http://research.domaintools.com/statistics/tld-counts/">http://research.domaintools.com/statistics/tld-counts/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>We repeated the exercise a week ago (6/7th May 2017) to see what had</span><br><span>changed. As expected, almost all ccTLD Domain counts have increased and</span><br><span>a handful have gone down by a very small margin.</span><br><span></span><br><span>There was one glaring exception, Cameroon.</span><br><span></span><br><span>November 2016: 63,023</span><br><span></span><br><span>May 2017: 31,801</span><br><span></span><br><span>That is, over the period of the Cameroon shutdown, the number of domains</span><br><span>registered under .CM decreased by more than 50%</span><br><span></span><br><span>That is significant.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Mark James ELKINS - Posix Systems - (South) Africa</span><br><span><a href="mailto:mje@posix.co.za">mje@posix.co.za</a> Tel: +27.128070590 Cell: +27.826010496</span><br><span>For fast, reliable, low cost Internet in ZA: <a href="https://ftth.posix.co.za">https://ftth.posix.co.za</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Community-Discuss mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Community-Discuss@afrinic.net">Community-Discuss@afrinic.net</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>