In its reaction to the AU, DCA claims that it cannot participate in the process because it is skewed to favor AfTLD.

"Since the AU Task Force members have already expressed interest on DotAfrica, and have also openly supported AfTLD .... it is therefore clear to one and all that the AU Task Force on DotAfrica is tainted, because its members who are in a sinister confederacy with AfTLD are manifestly leading the organization astray by floating wrong and unworkable proposals, whilst pushing an opaque and illegal agenda," according to the statement from DCA.

DCA is demanding that the AU commission stop the EOI process and reinstate its previous endorsement, adding that failure to halt the process will damage the institutional credibility of the AU.