AfriNIC
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AfriNIC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa.
AfriNIC, headquartered in Ebene City, Mauritius, was provisionally recognised by ICANN on October 11, 2004 and became functionally operational on February 22, 2005. It was recognised by ICANN in April 2005.
Previously, IP addresses for Africa were distributed by APNIC, ARIN, and the RIPE NCC. [1]
AfriNIC has been assigned the IPv4 address blocks 41.0.0.0/8 and 196.0.0.0/8 and the IPv6 block 2001:4200::/23. Its AS numbers are AS32768 - AS33791 and AS36864 - AS37887
[edit] Countries
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Republic of Congo
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- The Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Western Sahara
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
