AfriNIC

AfriNIC is a non-government, not-for-profit, membership based organization, based in Mauritius that serves the African Internet Community. AfriNIC is the Regional Registry for Internet Number Resources for Africa.

How to Register a Domain

To register a Domain, a Registrar requires a "Client ID" with Domain Registration Rights. The registered "Client ID" and a password grants access to the Registrar's Profile.

Under the Registrar's profile, there is a menu with the various options; selecting "Register Domain" under Domains will give the Domain registration interface.

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Root Servers

A root name server is a DNS server that answers requests for the root namespace domain, and redirects requests for a particular top-level domain (TLD) to that TLD's nameservers. Although any local implementation of DNS can implement its own private root name servers, the term "root name server" is generally used to describe the thirteen well-known root name servers that implement the root namespace domain for the Internet's official global implementation of the Domain Name System.

All domain names on the Internet can be regarded as ending in a full stop character e.g. "en.wikipedia.org.". This final dot is generally implied rather than explicit, as modern DNS software does not actually require that the final dot be included when attempting to translate a domain name to an IP address. The empty string after the final dot is called the root domain, and all other domains (i.e. .com, .org, .net, etc.) are contained within the root domain.

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Domain Deletion

To reduce the abuse of domain registrations, registered domains CANNOT be deleted online.

The offline process requires Transfer Documents: for the Entity and Identification documents for the Administrative authority of the entity The Administrative authority is the Responsible contact person at the Entity.

The Identification Document could be Either a passport or an ID card number. Please complete the Domain Removal form.

The Expired Domains process is an alternative way to remove a registered domain name from the Registry database.