Whois & Analysis for afrinic.net

AFRINIC (African Network Information Center) is the regional Internet registry (RIR) for Africa.

Its headquarters are in Ebene City, Mauritius.

Alan Barrett is the registry's chief executive officer., AFRINIC had a staff of 45.

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet.

IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4 address exhaustion.

IPv6 is intended to replace IPv4.

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth version of the Internet Protocol (IP).

It is one of the core protocols of standards-based internetworking methods in the Internet, and was the first version deployed for production in the ARPANET in 1983.

It still routes most Internet traffic today, despite the ongoing deployment of a successor protocol, IPv6.

IPv4 is described in IETF publication RFC 791 (September 1981), replacing an earlier definition (RFC 760, January 1980).

Within the Internet, an autonomous system (AS) is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators on behalf of a single administrative entity or domain that presents a common, clearly defined routing policy to the Internet.

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

Internet number resources include IP addresses and autonomous system (AS) numbers.