Allocation, transfer and stewardship of IPv4, IPv6 and AS numbers -- the registry's core function.
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IP Address and ASN Allocations in Africa: Unveiling Key Insights In today's interconnected world, the Internet has become an integral part of our daily lives. From government services to education, healthcare to…
The Internet has revolutionised, amongst others, the way we communicate, access information, and do business. As a result, organisations of all types and sizes heavily rely on it to connect with their customers and…
AFRINIC has received an allocation from IANA for the following block of AS Numbers: AS328704 - AS329727
AFRINIC is 1.85 million /32s IPv4 away from Phase 2 of IPv4 exhaustion As of 16 October 2019, AFRINIC has 3.9 million /32s addresses in the available IPv4 pool. We are now 1.85 million /32s addresses away from the /11…
AFRINIC's available IPv4 resource pool is gradually decreasing. AFRINIC has been delegating IPv4 resources to its Resource Members who have demonstrated needs according to IPv4 Exhaustion Phase 1 of the soft landing…
30 May 2018 - AFRINIC initiated a clean-up exercise on the quarantined resources that had reached the end of the Quarantine period in March 2018. As a reminder, we delete all related objects from the AFRINIC whois…
AFRINIC is pleased to announce that the policy IPv4 Resources Transfer within the AFRINIC service region has been implemented.
3 April 2017 - On 31st March 2017,AFRINIC has approved a request for IPv4 resources that could not be fulfilled from the IPv4 address space available in the AFRINIC pool (with the exception of the final /8), triggering…
March 30 2017 - As of 27 March 2017, AFRINIC's pool of available IPv4 address space contained the equivalent of 1.03 /8s and we expect to reach the last /8 of available IPv4 space by the end of March or the first days…
16 January 2017 - The AFRINIC IPv4 inventory will soon reach a point where the "Current Phase" will end, and "Exhaustion Phase 1" of the IPv4 Soft Landing policy will begin. This is an update on the implementation of…
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) made an allocation of the equivalent of a /12 of IPv4 address space to AFRINIC and each of the other four RIRs in accordance with the "Global Policy for Post Exhaustion…
On 20 May 2014, ICANN announced that it had begun the process of allocating the remaining blocks of IPv4 address space to the five Regional Internet Registries (RIR). The trigger for this was LACNIC's pool of IPv4…
ARIN, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for North America, announced on 23 April 2014 that it had entered phase 4 of its IPv4 Countdown Plan, meaning that it is now assigning space from the last /8 of IPv4 address…
