Refimprove date February 2010 File Regional Internet Registries world map.svg thumb right 220px Regional Internet Registries containing AfriNIC AfriNIC African Network Information Center is the regional Internet registry RIR for Africa . Its headquarters are in Ebene City , Mauritius . Adiel Akplogan is the registry s chief executive officer. As of 2010 11 , AfriNIC had a staff of 18. ref http www.afrinic.net staff.htm AfriNIC Staff List ref Before AfriNIC was formed, IP address es for Africa were distributed by the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre APNIC , the American Registry for Internet Numbers ARIN , and the RIPE NCC . ref http www.iana.org icp icp 2.htm IANA.org ref ICANN provisionally recognized AfriNIC on date 11 Oct 2004 . The registry became operational on date 22 Feb 2005 . ICANN gave it final recognition in date April 2005 . AfriNIC has been allocated the IPv4 Classless Inter Domain Routing CIDR blocks address blocks tt 41.0.0.0 8 tt , tt 102.0.0.0 8 tt , tt 105.0.0.0 8 tt and tt 197.0.0.0 8 tt and IPv6 blocks tt 2c00 12 tt and tt 2001 4200 23 tt . AfriNIC also administers the address space for tt 196.0.0.0 8 tt and tt 154.0.0.0 8 tt . ref http www.iana.org assignments ipv4 address space ipv4 address space.xml IANA.org ref br See also Address Supporting Organization ASO Internet Governance Forum IGF Number Resource Organization NRO an organization of the five RIRs World Summit on the Information Society WSIS References references External links http www.afrinic.net AfriNIC website Regional Internet Registry Category Internet in Africa Category Regional Internet Registries ar de African Network Information Centre fr AfriNIC it AfriNIC sw AfriNIC nl African Network Information Center ja AfriNIC sr AfriNIC ... more details
Anic or ANIC may refer to The Anglican Network in Canada , a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America . A.N.I.C. A song on the album Does This Look Infected? Azienda Nazionale Idrogenazione Combustibili AfriNIC African Network Information Center , the regional Internet registry for Africa Association of Northern Ireland Colleges Augusta Neighborhood Improvement Corporation Australian National Insect Collection Colombian National Intelligence Agency Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Colombiana disambig ... more details
This is a list of Internet organizations , or organizations that play or played a key role in the evolution of the Internet by developing recommendations, Standards organization standards , and technology deploying infrastructure and services and addressing other major issues. Standards development and broad based advocacy and educational organizations IAB Internet Architecture Board IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group IETF Internet Engineering Task Force IRTF Internet Research Task Force ISOC Internet Society NANOG North American Network Operators Group NRO Number Resource Organization W3C World Wide Web Consortium Regional Internet Registries RIRs AfriNIC AfriNIC African Network Information Centre ARIN American Registry for Internet Numbers APNIC Asia Pacific Network Information Centre LACNIC Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre RIPE RIPE NCC R seaux IP Europ ens Network Coordination Centre United Nations bodies Internet Governance Forum World Summit on the Information Society Working Group on Internet Governance Research and education organizations Expand section date September 2011 Merit Merit Network Merit Network, Inc. NLR National LambdaRail Internet2 aka UCAID University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development Commercial organizations Expand section date September 2011 Commercial organizations that made early and significant contributions to the development of the Internet or services available on the Internet See also Category Internet companies Amazon.com AOL America Online eBay Facebook Flickr Google LinkedIn Network Solutions NSI Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo YouTube Historical organizations Expand section date September 2011 Organizations that played an important role in the development of the Internet in the past Advanced Network and Services ANS DARPA U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency InterNIC NSFNET NSF U.S. National ... more details
The Ebene Cyber Tower One is a 12 storey, 72 metre tall commercial building located in Ebene Cyber City , Mauritius . The blue glass and grey stone building has been awarded the Intelligent Building of the Year by the ICF Intelligent Community Forum ICF , USA in 2005. The IBMS Integrated Building Management System for this building was conceived and implemented by Race Technologies, a company based out of Chennai , India . The reinforced concrete tower which was completed in a period of only 18 months is a fully air conditioned building with a surface area of 42,275 square metres. Situated in a residential zone and at about 10 kilometres south of Port Louis , the country s capital, the Ebene Cyber Tower One is part of a plan by the Government of Mauritius to develop information and communications technologies as a fifth pillar of the nation s economy. India s prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh inaugurated the Ebene Cyber Tower One on April 1, 2005. Nearby, construction on Cyber Tower Two has already ended and the latter should include very modern features just like Cyber Tower One. Ebene Cyber Tower hosts the AFRINIC , the internet registry for Africa. Numerous recent financial scams attempted via email and social networks have originated from IP addresses assigned by AFRINIC in the Ebene Cyber Tower. References reflist See also Ebene City External links http www.e cybercity.mu Home page of Ebene Cyber City coord missing Mauritius Category Buildings and structures completed in 2005 Category Buildings and structures in Mauritius fr Cybertour d b ne Mauritius struct stub ... more details
coord 20.243889 57.49 display title Ebene City is a city on the island nation of Mauritius , 15 km nine miles south of the capital, Port Louis . Construction began in November, 2001, with the city being promoted as a new information technology hub for Mauritius and as a link between African and Asia n markets as a result is referred to as Ebene Cyber City . Ebene is a cable landing point of the SAFE cable system SAFE high speed submarine communications cable between South Africa and Malaysia . It is also the home of AfriNIC , the Regional Internet Registry for Africa , and other information technology IT companies. See also Ebene Cyber Tower External links http www.e cybercity.mu Home page of Ebene Cybercity Mauritius geo stub Category Cable landing points Category Populated places in Mauritius de Ebene City sw Ebene City ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Alan Levin born April 15, 1968 in Johannesburg , South Africa . Early life and career He obtained a Computer Science degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1999 and left South Africa to avoid his conscription to the South African army during the last years of apartheid. After the government changed in 1994, Alan returned to South Africa and completed his Masters in Business Administration MBA at the University of Cape Town . Alan is a co founder of Telkom Internet, one of the biggest ISPs in Africa. Internet Activist Alan is a champion of Internet user rights and lobbied for 9 years for freedom in telecommunications in South Africa. From 1999 to 2008 he regularly presented submissions in the South African Parliament on behalf of the Cape Telecommunications User Forum as well as the ISOC South Africa . Alan currently operates a niche ISP, Vanilla. He has performed the roles of Chairman of the Internet Society ISOC South Africa 2004 2007 , he sat on the founding Boards of Directors of AfriNIC 2004 2006 , the .za DNA 2003 2008 and Future Perfect Corporation 2000 current . Alan established the http wiki.isoc.org.za Spammer Bounty Hunter program and is currently participating in the Village Telco project. External links http www.afridns.org alan Alan Levin References http thepublicvoice.org events capetown04 conf speakers.html The Public Voice Cape Town Symposium speakers 6 December 2004 http wiki.chapters.isoc.org tiki index.php?page Alan Levin&bl n&saved msg y Internet Society Alan Levin 27 August 2009 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Levin, Alan ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1968 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Levin, Alan Category Internet Society Category South African Jews Category Living people Category 1968 births SouthAfrica bio stub ms Alan Levin penguasaan internet ... more details
Infobox Person name Nii Narku Quaynor image image size 250x268 px caption Dr Nii Narku Quaynor. birth name Nii Narku Quaynor birth date birth place death date death place residence other names known for Developing telecommunications and Internet in Africa education employer occupation Computer Scientist title salary networth height weight term predecessor successor party boards religion spouse partner children parents relatives signature website footnotes Nii Narku Quaynor is a scientist and engineer who has played an important role in the introduction and development of the Internet throughout Africa . Biography Quaynor graduated in engineering science from Dartmouth College in 1972 and received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Thayer School of Engineering there in 1973. He then studied Computer Science, obtaining an M.S. from the State University of New York at StonyBrook in 1974 and a Ph.D. from the same institution in 1977. He attended Adisadel College and Achimota School in Ghana He was one of the founding members of the Computer Science Department at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana , and continues to hold a professorship there. ref http www.icann.org biog quaynor.htm Prof Nii Quaynor biography ref He is also a member of the Council of the University of Ghana. In 2000, he became director of ICANN for the African region. Work with telecommunications and the Internet On Quaynor s return to Ghana from the United States in the early 1990s he established some of Africa s first Internet connections and was involved in setting up some key organisations including the African Network Operators Group AfNOG . ref http www.afnog.org quaynor.html Dr. Nii Quaynor Receives 2007 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award ref He introduced Value Added Networks in the region through the introduction of the SWIFT, Internet and Commerce networks, and was founding chairman of AfriNIC, the African numbers registry. Quaynor is Chairman of the Ghana ian company Network Computer S ... more details
orphan date October 2009 Image pwhois query.png thumb This example Prefix WhoIs query shows various information about an IP address including its network origin and registrar details Prefix WhoIs is an open source project that develops and operates a free whois compatible framework for stockpiling and querying various routing and registry information. Prefix WhoIs uses global BGP routing data learned from many ISP backbone routers. Other information sources are also supported, such as imported data from every Regional Internet Registry AFRINIC , APNIC , ARIN , LACNIC and RIPE and geocoding information. The project has been mentioned in a number of popular network security and network engineering books ref Extreme Exploits Advanced Defenses Against Hardcore Hacks 2005 by McGraw Hill ISBN 0 07 225955 8 ref and articles ref http www.securityfocus.com excerpts 17 3 SecurityFocus article ref . Public Prefix WhoIs Service Many public servers around the world operate mirrors of Prefix WhoIs, making the information generally available worldwide. The service may be used with any client using the standard whois protocol. The DNS address whois.pwhois.org resolves to the Prefix WhoIs server nearest to the client based on anycast DNS. Client Software Several client software packages are available from both Prefix WhoIs itself and from commercial vendors. These include free, open source utilities such as WhoB and Layer Four Trace route. Server Software The http pwhois.org server.who pWhoIsd server software responds to standard whois queries and supports a variety of output formats including Prefix WhoIs native, Cymru, and RPSL . The pWhoIs updatedb agent parses routing information base s RIBs from Internet routers or digests from route views servers in text or MRT format and populates a relational database Software Development Libraries The Prefix WhoIs project distributes C and PHP libraries for direct access to Prefix WhoIs servers. A HTTP simpleQuery interface is also availabl ... more details
to the formation of AfriNIC , RIPE NCC served the following countries ref http web.archive.org web ... RIRs AFRINICAfriNIC , APNIC , ARIN , LACNIC and the RIPE NCC. The Number Resource Organization ... more details
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