APNIC

27°28′23″S 153°00′51″E / 27.47315°S 153.0141°E / -27.47315; 153.0141

Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
Founded15 January 1993; 31 years ago (1993-01-15)[1]
FocusAllocation and registration of IP address space
Location
Members
7,828
Chair of Executive Council
Kenny Huang[2]
Secretary of Executive Council
Roopinder Singh Perhar
Treasurer of Executive Council
Yoshinobu Matsuzaki
Employees88
Websitewww.apnic.net
APNIC offices

APNIC (the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is the regional Internet address registry (RIR) for the Asia–Pacific region.[3] It is one of the world's five RIRs and is part of the Number Resource Organization (NRO).[3]

APNIC provides numbers resource allocation and registration services that support the global operation of the internet. It is a nonprofit, membership-based organization whose members include Internet service providers, telecommunication providers, data centers, universities, banks, national Internet registries, and similar organizations that have their own networks.

  1. ^ "A New Regional Network Information Center is Initiated". Archived from the original on 9 May 2001.
  2. ^ "EC members". Retrieved 8 September 2023.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference AFNIC, 2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).