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| Company type | Non-profit |
|---|---|
| Industry | Domain registry |
| Founded | 2017 [1] |
| Website | registry |
Registry.Africa [2] was created in 2017 to manage [3] the .africa top-level domain. [4] [5]
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| Company type | Non-profit |
|---|---|
| Industry | Domain registry |
| Founded | 2017 [1] |
| Website | registry |
Registry.Africa [2] was created in 2017 to manage [3] the .africa top-level domain. [4] [5]
.africa was launched [6] [7] [8] at the African Union Commission [9] in 2017. In 2012 the application [10] process for a new top level domain was launched [11] by ICANN. [12] The Registry Agreement was signed Archived 2020-01-14 at the Wayback Machine on 26 March 2014 in Singapore. [13]
The application for .africa was endorsed and supported [14] by the African Union [15] and the official launch [16] [17] [18] took place at the Africa Union Commission Headquarters on 3 July 2017 during the 29th African Union (AU) Summit. [19]
.africa's Africa Regional Support [20] includes African Union Commission (AUC), [21] [22] AfriNIC, AfTLD, ITU, UNECA and Nepad.