During an emotional ICANN board meeting here in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, ICANN chairman Vint Cerf shed a tear and said, over the sound of a standing ovation: It means so much to see two years of hard work come to fruition.

ICANN director Mouhamet Diop, from Senegal, said AfriNIC, the fifth Regional Internet Registry, becomes the only unique institution that is working for the internet for the whole continent in the interests of the whole continent.