AfriNIC

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AfriNIC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa.

AfriNIC, headquartered in Ebene City, Mauritius, was provisionally recognized by ICANN on October 11, 2004 and became functionally operational on February 22, 2005. It was recognized by ICANN in April 2005.

Previously, IP addresses for Africa were distributed by APNIC, ARIN, and the RIPE NCC. [1]

AfriNIC has been allocated the IPv4 address blocks 41.0.0.0/8 and 196.0.0.0/8 and the IPv6 blocks 2c00::/12 and 2001:4200::/23. Its AS numbers are 5.0 - 5.1023, AS32768 - AS33791 and AS36864 - AS37887

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