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AfriNIC Anti-Abuse Group

AfriNIC 11 November 2009. AfriNIC Anti-Abuse Group. S. Moonesamy sm+afrinic@elandsys.com. 1. What’s the AAAG?. Open to networks in the AfriNIC region No membership or other fees. Stop email abuse. Senders and receivers cooperate to ensure email delivery. AfriNIC 11 - AAAG. 2.

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AfriNIC Anti-Abuse Group

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  1. AfriNIC 11 November 2009 AfriNIC Anti-Abuse Group S. Moonesamy sm+afrinic@elandsys.com 1

  2. What’s the AAAG? Open to networks in the AfriNIC regionNo membership or other fees Stop email abuse Senders and receivers cooperateto ensure email delivery AfriNIC 11 - AAAG 2

  3. 419 syndrome Bad for African companies if all emails are flagged as spam Visitors to the region cannot access services on their home networks Collateral damage to all countries in Africa AfriNIC 11 - AAAG 3

  4. Whois “How can a barely noticeable island hundreds of miles east of Madagascar have a Cyber Tower or Cyber City which is an Internet hub for the entire African continent?” $ whois 196.205.1.1 African Network Information Center NET196 (NET-196-0-0-0-0) 196.0.0.0 - 196.255.255.255 RIPE Network Coordination Centre RIPE-ERX-196-200-0-0 (NET-196-200-0-0-1) 196.200.0.0 - 196.207.255.255 AfriNIC 11 - AAAG 4

  5. African Network Information Center OrgName: African Network Information Center OrgID: AFRINIC Address: 03B3 - 3rd Floor - Ebene Cyber Tower Address: Cyber City Address: Ebene Address: Mauritius City: Ebene StateProv: PostalCode: 0001 Country: MU AfriNIC 11 - AAAG 5

  6. Getting your facts right $ whois -h whois.afrinic.net 196.205.1.1 % This is the AfriNIC Whois server. % Note: this output has been filtered. % Information related to '196.205.0.0 - 196.205.31.255' inetnum: 196.205.0.0 - 196.205.31.255 netname: INTOUCH descr: Intouch-DSL country: EG admin-c: mg7699 tech-c: eM1587-AFRINIC status: ASSIGNED PA mnt-by: MAINT-LINK remarks: data has been transferred from RIPE Whois Database 20050221 source: AFRINIC # Filtered parent: 196.205.0.0 - 196.205.255.255 AfriNIC 11 - AAAG 6

  7. Collaboration Africans can collaborate It is to our mutual benefit AfriNIC 11 - AAAG 7

  8. AfriNIC Anti-Abuse Group Thank you AfriNIC 11 - AAAG 8

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