AfriNIC is the regional Internet registry

Regional Internet registry

A regional Internet registry is an organization that manages the allocation and registration of Internet number resources within a particular region of the world...

 (RIR) for Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

. Its headquarters are in Ebene City

Ebene City

Ebene City is a city on the island nation of Mauritius, 15 km south of the capital, Port Louis.Construction began in November, 2001, with the city being promoted as a new information technology hub for Mauritius and as a link between African and Asian markets -- as a result is referred to as Ebene...

, Mauritius

Mauritius

Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...

. Adiel Akplogan is the registry's chief executive officer. , AfriNIC had a staff of 18.

Before AfriNIC was formed, IP address

IP address

An Internet Protocol address is a numerical label assigned to each device participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing...

es for Africa were distributed by the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre

Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre

The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre is the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific region.APNIC provides number resource allocation and registration services that support the global operation of the Internet...

 (APNIC), the American Registry for Internet Numbers

American Registry for Internet Numbers

The American Registry for Internet Numbers is the Regional Internet Registry for Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States. ARIN manages the distribution of Internet number resources, including IPv4 and IPv6 address space and AS numbers. ARIN opened its doors for...

 (ARIN), and the RIPE NCC

RIPE NCC

The Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre is the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia...

.

ICANN

ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a non-profit corporation headquartered in Marina del Rey, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly...

 provisionally recognized AfriNIC on . The registry became operational on . ICANN gave it final recognition in .

AfriNIC has been allocated the IPv4

IPv4

Internet Protocol version 4 is the fourth revision in the development of the Internet Protocol and the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed. Together with IPv6, it is at the core of standards-based internetworking methods of the Internet...

 address blocks 41.0.0.0/8, 102.0.0.0/8, 105.0.0.0/8 and 197.0.0.0/8 and IPv6

IPv6

Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...

 blocks 2c00::/12 and 2001:4200::/23. AfriNIC also administers the address space for 196.0.0.0/8 and 154.0.0.0/8.

See also

• Address Supporting Organization
  Address Supporting Organization
  The Address Supporting Organization is a supporting organization affiliated with ICANN. It was founded in 1999. Its members make up the Address Council...
  
   (ASO)
• Internet Governance Forum
  Internet Governance Forum
  The Internet Governance Forum is a multi-stakeholder forum for policy dialogue on issues of Internet governance. It brings together all stakeholders in the internet governance debate, whether they represent governments, the private sector or civil society, including the technical and academic...
  
   (IGF)
• Number Resource Organization (NRO): an organization of the five RIRs
• World Summit on the Information Society
  World Summit on the Information Society
  The World Summit on the Information Society was a pair of United Nations-sponsored conferences about information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis...
  
  (WSIS)