MyAFRINIC, the WHOIS database, billing, registration services and member support.
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PeeringDB’s update for October 2025 to April 2026 covers the completed Kubernetes migration, rate limiting against automated scrapers, improved ASN Comparison, location data normalization, and expanded API query export.
Welcome to our third half-yearly update. While we publish release notes with each update and promote new features and bug fixes on social media, these reports take a broader look at recent changes. You can find our…
You must have a second factor to login to PeeringDB from 1 July 2025. If you automate updates using our API , you'll need to use an API Key . But anonymous usage will not be going away. You can query the website or API…
This is to alert AFRINIC Resource Members of a misleading email communication from purported representatives of a fictitious organization; targeted at AFRINIC Resource Members (“members”), soliciting them to sign a…
As we begin the new year, new features are opening up new paths. Your input will help us choose how we move them down. We have some big things planned for 2023, as noted in our roundup of 2022. The two most significant…
PeeringDB is a freely available, user-maintained, database of networks, and the go-to location for interconnection data. The database facilitates the global interconnection of networks at Internet Exchange Points…
In preparation for the 2023 annual membership invoicing, AFRINIC organised a webinar on 26th October 2022 to engage with its members, through their registered billing contacts. The objective was to raise awareness of…
AFRINIC receives a variety of questions and enquiries for support. At the same time, some fall out of scope; however, we have narrowed down the frequently asked questions, mostly related to member account information…
PeeringDB wants input from everyone who uses our interconnection database. Our anonymous survey is now open until 23:59 UTC on 16 October 2022. We would like your feedback to help us make PeeringDB more useful to…
AFRINIC AI PresenterThe 2022 AFRINIC Annual General Members Meeting will take place on 3rd June 2022, when three Board seats and one Governance Committee seat are up for election. AFRINIC strives to ensure a free and…
For the sake of AFRINIC’s Board election, the AFRINIC Nomination Committee (NomCom) and Election Committee (E-Com) have been respectively entrusted with the tasks of the selection of candidates and the running of the…
Last September we asked you for input through our anonymous satisfaction survey, so we could use it to guide our product roadmap for 2022. Today, we are sharing what you told us through the survey and how we’ll be…
PeeringDB wants input from network operators, exchange operators, facility providers, content distributors, and anyone who uses our interconnection database. We are running an anonymous satisfaction survey until 23:59…
Two-factor authentication (2FA), sometimes referred to as two-step verification or dual-factor authentication, is a security process in which users provide two different authentication factors to verify themselves. This…
PeeringDB is a freely available database of networks for interconnection data. The database facilitates the global interconnection of networks at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), data centres, and other interconnection…
Effective 12 December 2020, we shall fully deprecate support for CRYPT and MD5 authentication mechanisms. The passwords will no longer work on updating other objects, except to allow an update of the maintainer object…
On Tuesday 10 November 2020, we sent a system-generated email for the outstanding balances of our membership. We noticed that there was an error in the configuration of the system which picked the 2021 invoices, which…
PeeringDB is a freely available database of networks for interconnection data. The database facilitates the global interconnection of networks at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), data centres, and other interconnection…
AFRINIC is pleased to invite you to participate in its next webinar on 'AFRINIC Membership and the Rights and Power of Members’' The session will examine how AFRINIC manages Internet Number Resources in its service…
AFRINIC's Member Services Department is the first point of contact for many AFRINIC members or those seeking to become a member. The department has expertise in Customer Services Support and Internet Number Resource…
( Arabic version below ) As part of our ongoing effort to improve our services, we invited you to participate in the 2018 AFRINIC Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSS) from 05 October 2018 to 15 February 2019. The study…
As part of our ongoing effort to improve our services, we invite you to participate in the 2018 AFRINIC Stakeholders survey, open from 16 October -31 December 2018.. The survey will seek to understand our membership and…
The AFRINIC Board constituted a Fee Review Committee in 2017 to consider changes to AFRINIC’s fee structure. The committee presented a report to the Board on 9 May 2018, with updates on 23 May 2018. The report is…
On 2 October 2017 a revised RSA was published for public comments. The comment period ended on 30 October 2017. We have prepared a table summarising the comments and staff responses to the comments, as well as a revised…
2 October 2017 - AFRINIC is calling for comments on a revision to the Registration Service Agreement (RSA). The draft revised RSA may be found here . This revision to the RSA is necessary to allow transfers in…
The deployment of this new version is scheduled for overnight, on 31 August 2017 and available as from 1 September. 2017
On 1st June 2017 , the Board took the following decision with regards to LIR Membership fees and penalties. Invoice all members in the first week of November of the preceding Year The invoice will be dated 1st January…
