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Ukrainian carriers are leasing their IPv4 addresses to stay afloat - sometimes after being overrun by Russia
Who can begrudge them? Maybe all of us if IP brokers send them to loose operators
Networks05 Jun 2025 | 7
New APNIC director general steps up to steer the internet for 4 billion users
Interview Jia Rong Low hopes to make registries interesting again
Networks27 Apr 2025 | 5
Asia reaches 50 percent IPv6 capability and leads the world in user numbers
India and China deliver a nice milestone, with help from ancient internet history
Datacenter Networking Nexus23 Apr 2025 | 42
Regional Internet Registries work to prevent one of their own going rogue
APRICOT There's a lot going on at the orgs who regulate IP addresses as they revisit global governance and new leadership comes to APNIC and LACNIC
Networks02 Mar 2025 |
Nope. You probably can't cash in by turning your office or farm into a datacenter
APRICOT Bit barn developer says your real estate can't take the heat, and forget nuking it to change that
On-Prem27 Feb 2025 | 33
Huawei handed 2,596,148,429,267,413, 814,265,248,164,610,048 IPv6 addresses
That's 2.56 decillion of them, destined for use in CDNs and the cloud – and APNIC needed 83 decillion more to handle the request
Networks06 Dec 2024 | 90
250 million-plus unused IPv4 addresses should be left alone, argues network boffin
Tests show it's just too hard to put the unused 240/4 block to work
Networks16 Sep 2024 | 96
Asia's regional internet registry APNIC names new director general
ICANN's local boss Jia Rong Low gets the gig – and a challenging to-do list
Networks31 Jul 2024 | 3
Starlink offers 'unusually hostile environment' to TCP
Hopping satellites every 15 seconds will do that to a protocol, natch
Networks22 May 2024 | 98
DotAsia registry tries to put poll problems behind it and set new strategy
Special report Home of the .asia gTLD has had a challenging year
Legal28 Dec 2023 |
Stop shaming service providers for outages, argues APNIC chief scientist
Tech companies should behave like the aviation industry and detail failures to improve safety for all
Off-Prem24 Nov 2023 | 28
APNIC close to completing delegation of its final /8 IPv4 block
Asian internet registry still has 5M 32-bit addresses from different sources – or practically infinite IPv6s
Networks11 Oct 2023 | 8
Internet registry APNIC announces governance and election reforms
Addresses criticisms raised by sections of the community and recent controversies
Networks12 Jul 2023 | 1
How a dispute over IP addresses led to a challenge to internet governance
Updated Who is behind this lobby group calling for a stock market of-sorts for network resources?
Networks03 Jul 2023 | 78
APNIC backed off naming naughty nominees after injunction threat
Code of conduct complaints were not publicized in case it disrupted voting
Networks28 Mar 2023 | 3
APNIC elections: Reform activists rejected, org welcomes stronger election protections
Candidates supported by Morocco-backed group fail to win a single seat on Executive Council
Networks02 Mar 2023 | 3
Africa's internet registry has sometimes needed financial assistance to keep operating, could fail, warns ARIN head
AFRINIC situation has links to the APNIC snafu – and The Reg has more evidence of astroturfing
Legal22 Feb 2023 | 8
APNIC calls in lawyers to handle election code of conduct breach allegations
Threats to voters also reported as vote for regional internet registry heats up
Legal21 Feb 2023 | 7
APNIC warns members to watch out for fake election phone calls
The Register finds evidence of astroturfing in governance stoush
Legal17 Feb 2023 | 3
APNIC election sparks move for rapid rule changes to prevent council stacking
Some of the actors involved in AFRINIC's recent controversies want to reform Asia's regional registry
Networks15 Feb 2023 | 3
Cloudflare signals big Asian push, starting in Singapore
Seeks salespeople focused on expansion – and casinos – and adds a trio of senior managers
Networks24 Jan 2022 | 1
APNIC: Big Tech's use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation
IPv4 limits apps to simple interactions, and in 2021 IPv6 adoption growth was just three per cent
Networks20 Jan 2022 | 223
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