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On March 9, 2011, [[AfTLD]] Chairman [[Vikas Mpisane]] announced that [[AfTLD]] would seek the endorsement of the African Union in connection with its application to become the registry operator for the proposed .africa gTLD.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/3796-competition-for-africa-heats-up]</ref> According to Mr. Mpisane, the organization was interested in managing both DotAfrica and its French version, .afrique. The organization was confident that it would be successful with its bid for the DotAfrica project, given the support it has received from the African community, African governments and its close relationship with other Africa internet organizations, incuding [[AfNOG]], [[AfriNIC]] and [[AfrISPA]].<ref>[http://www.aftld.org/html/english/news_dotafrica.html AfTLD takes on .africa]</ref>

On March 9, 2011, [[AfTLD]] Chairman [[Vikas Mpisane]] announced that [[AfTLD]] would seek the endorsement of the African Union in connection with its application to become the registry operator for the proposed .africa gTLD.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/3796-competition-for-africa-heats-up]</ref> According to Mr. Mpisane, the organization was interested in managing both DotAfrica and its French version, .afrique. The organization was confident that it would be successful with its bid for the DotAfrica project, given the support it has received from the African community, African governments and its close relationship with other Africa internet organizations, incuding [[AfNOG]], [[AfriNIC]] and [[AfrISPA]].<ref>[http://www.aftld.org/html/english/news_dotafrica.html AfTLD takes on .africa]</ref>

Following its announcement to seek the AU endorsement, during the 5th Annual African ccTLD Event in Accra, Ghana on May 2011, [[Haruna Iddrissu]], Ghana Minister of Communications and [[Nii Quaynor|Dr. Nii Quaynor]], Chairman of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Internet Task Force, expressed their support for AfTLD's bid to become the registry operator of .africa.<ref>[http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102516344150-101/Post_Event_Press_release_final+AftLD.pdf AfTLD concludes a successful annual concludes a successful annual African ccTLD event in Accra]</ref>

Following its announcement to seek the AU endorsement, during the 5th Annual African ccTLD Event in Accra, Ghana on May 2011, [[Haruna Iddrissu]], Ghana Minister of Communications and [[Nii Quaynor|Dr. Nii Quaynor]], Chairman of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Internet Task Force, expressed their support for AfTLD's bid to become the registry operator of .africa.<ref>[http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102516344150-101/Post_Event_Press_release_final+AftLD.pdf AfTLD concludes a successful annual concludes a successful annual African ccTLD event in Accra]</ref> AfTLD went on to support the current bid submitted by UniForum (ZACR).<ref>[http://domainincite.com/11958-nutty-dca-complains-to-us-congress-about-africa Nutty DCA Complains to US Congress about Africa, DomainIncite.com\ Published & Retrieved 22 Feb 2013</ref>

===ARC Bid for DotAfrica===

===ARC Bid for DotAfrica===