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APNIC provides an alternative to the whois called the Registration Data Access protocol (RDAP), which was designed to address issues in the whois service, the most important of which are: standardization of queries and responses; internalization considerations to cater for languages other than English in data objects; and redirection ...
A regional Internet registry (RIR) is an organization that manages the allocation and registration of Internet number resources within a region of the world. Internet number resources include IP addresses and autonomous system (AS) numbers.
This means that 256 /8 address blocks fit into the entire IPv4 space. As IPv4 address exhaustion has advanced to its final stages, some organizations, such as Stanford University, formerly using 36.0.0.0 / 8, have returned their allocated blocks (in this case to APNIC) to assist in the delay of the exhaustion date.
The various legacy address blocks with administration historically split among the RIRs were distributed to the RIRs in February 2011. [28] APNIC was the first regional Internet registry to run out of freely allocated IPv4 addresses, on 15 April 2011. This date marked the point where not everyone who needed an IPv4 address could be allocated one.
A national Internet registry (or NIR) is an organization under the umbrella of a regional Internet registry with the task of coordinating IP address allocations and other Internet resource management functions at a national level within a country or economic unit.
The primary source for IP address data is the regional Internet registries which allocates and distributes IP addresses amongst organizations located in their respective service regions: African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)
1.1.1.1 is a free Domain Name System (DNS) service by the American company Cloudflare in partnership with APNIC. [7] [needs update] The service functions as a recursive name server, providing domain name resolution for any host on the Internet.
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is the regional Internet registry for the United States, Canada, and many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands. ARIN manages the distribution of Internet number resources, including IPv4 and IPv6 address space and AS numbers.