Organization
CTO AFRINIC
CTO AFRINIC matters because changes in its footprint, governance position, or relationships can affect network operations and market visibility.
- Registry or number-resource coordination entity
At a glance
- Autonomous system numberLinked with AS33764, AS37708High confidence
Basic information
- Display nameCTO AFRINICHigh confidence
- Legal nameCTO AFRINICHigh confidence
- Directory categoryCompanyHigh confidence
- AliasesAFRINICMedium confidence
- Last updatedJun 16, 2026High confidence
Locations
- Geography scopeUnavailableUnrated
What it does
- Registry and RIR servicesUnavailable, CTO AFRINIC is linked to Registry and RIR services records in Global.High confidence
Network identity
- Autonomous system numberAS33764High confidence
- Autonomous system numberAS37708High confidence
Other network resources
- Registry recordCTO AFRINIC Global registry/RIR serviceHigh confidence
Registry and related records
- UnavailableAfrican internet operators · African internet operators is connected to this record.High confidence
- UnavailableCloud Innovation · Cloud Innovation is connected to this record. · The court judgment and Cloud Innovation release describe Cloud Innovation's application involving AFRINIC and the receiver order.Medium confidence
- UnavailableOfficial Receiver of Mauritius · Official Receiver of Mauritius is connected to this record. · The judgment restored the Official Receiver's mandate over AFRINIC's election process; this edge is scoped to that receiver mandate and timetable.High confidence
- UnavailableTanzanian Internet Service Providers Association · Tanzanian Internet Service Providers Association is connected to this record. · TISPA's statement describes its application involving AFRINIC and the receiver-manager over election process and member-rights concerns.High confidence
- UnavailableOfficial Receiver of Mauritius · Official Receiver of Mauritius is connected to this record. · The judgment restored the Official Receiver's mandate to oversee AFRINIC's election process.High confidence
- UnavailableAfriNIC board · AfriNIC board is connected to this record.High confidence
- UnavailableSmart Africa Alliance · Smart Africa Alliance is connected to this record.Medium confidence
- UnavailableFiona Asonga · Fiona Asonga is connected to this record. · NRS and Cloud Innovation place the public board-seat signal inside a contested election and member-rights dispute.Medium confidence
- UnavailableKaleem Ahmed Usmani · Kaleem Ahmed Usmani is connected to this record. · NRS places the board-seat signal in a disputed election setting; this is not treated as settled operational authority.Medium confidence
- UnavailableGowtamsingh Dabee · Gowtamsingh Dabee is connected to this record. · The archived ICANN announcement says the Mauritius court order named Dabee receiver over AFRINIC.Medium confidence
- UnavailableAdewole David Ajao · Adewole David Ajao is connected to this record. · AFRINIC's 2025 election portal lists Ajao Adewole David as elected for Board Seat 8.Medium confidence
- UnavailableBenjamin Mark Roberts · Benjamin Mark Roberts is connected to this record. · AFRINIC's elected-candidates and current board pages place Benjamin Mark Roberts in Seat 7.Medium confidence
- UnavailableAbdelaziz Hilali · Abdelaziz Hilali is connected to this record. · AFRINIC lists Prof Abdelaziz Hilali as vice-chairman and Seat 1 director.Medium confidence
- UnavailableCarla Sanderson · Carla Sanderson is connected to this record. · AFRINIC's board page and election-results notice place Carla Sanderson on the AFRINIC board for the Southern Africa seat.Medium confidence
- UnavailableEmmanuel Adewale Adedokun · Emmanuel Adewale Adedokun is connected to this record. · AFRINIC lists Prof. Emmanuel A. Adedokun as Board Chairman and Western Africa director.Medium confidence
- UnavailableKayemba Laurent Ntumba · Kayemba Laurent Ntumba is connected to this record. · AFRINIC election and current-director pages place Ntumba on the AFRINIC board.Medium confidence
- Registry and industry relationshipRegistry recordHigh confidence
- Editorial contextHow AFRINIC's Board Was Rebuilt: The Bylaws Provisions That Actually Governed the 2025 Election, When AfriNIC Ltd — the regional internet registry for Africa, better known as AFRINIC — entered receivership, its governing crisis became a test of which written rules actually bind an institution when its board is empty. The answer, on the evidence of the 2025 election record, is specific and provision-level: the reconstruction of AFRINIC's Board of Directors proceeded through the vacancy and appointment provisions of the in-force 2020 Bylaws (notably Articles 13.2 and 13.14), operated by a court-appointed Receiver whose powers the Supreme Court of Mauritius conferred — not through the Bylaws Review Committee's proposed "Business Continuity Mechanism," which remains a draft and never took effect.Medium confidence
- Editorial contextThe CTO Who Isn't There: Who Held Technology Control at AFRINIC While the Database Remembered a Role, Ask who the Chief Technology Officer of AFRINIC is, and the internet's own records give you two contradictory answers. The registry's current public staff roster lists departments, named engineers and heads of function — but no position titled Chief Technology Officer. Meanwhile, the AFRINIC WHOIS database still resolves a person object literally named "CTO AFRINIC", maintained by a self-referential maintainer object called CTO-MNT, reachable today through a public query. One institution, two memories: the human-resources view says the role does not exist; the database view says it persists. This article treats that contradiction as evidence rather than trivia. It traces, through court records, annual reports, mailing-list archives and ICANN correspondence, who actually exercised technology control at the registry for Africa's internet numbers from the moment its CEO left office in November 2022, through the receivership, and into the Interim Management Committee that still runs it — and asks what an organisation owes its stakeholders when the controlling title never existed, but the database never forgot it.Medium confidence
- Editorial contextAFRINIC's Instrument Chain: What Each Deciding Body Actually Ordered, Granted or Refused, The public record on AFRINIC's receivership is full of titles — court judgments, board communiqués, ICANN letters, receiver notices. Titles are not authority. This article reads back through the recorded instruments of the AFRINIC saga and extracts what each one actually certified, granted, ordered or refused: the operative words, not the headlines. On that audit alone — without importing conclusions from one institutional track into another — a clearer picture emerges of where authority over the African regional internet registry currently sits, and who can still challenge the result.Medium confidence
- Editorial contextDurable or Reversible: A Ledger of AFRINIC's Rebuilt Governance, Control by Control, When the Supreme Court of Mauritius placed AfriNIC Ltd — the registry the internet world knows as AFRINIC — into receivership on 12 September 2023, the court's findings were stark: there was no quorate board and no chief executive at the organisation that allocates internet number resources for an entire continent. Nearly three years later, the visible machinery of AFRINIC has been rebuilt. Eight directors were elected in September 2025. New IPv4 and IPv6 allocations resumed in July 2025. A CEO Designate, Mike Silber, was announced on 24 August 2026 and takes office on 1 January 2027. Yet the question that determines whether any of this constitutes repair rather than staging is simpler and harder: which of these rebuilt controls now runs without needing the Receiver's consent or the court's supervision — and which are still, functionally, acts of supervision?Medium confidence
- Editorial contextWho Watched While the Board Emptied: AFRINIC's Control Surface Before the Receivership, A court-ordered receiver now administers the African Network Information Centre, but the accountability question that matters most is upstream of the receivership: which prevention and detection mechanisms existed in 2023, why they did not fire, and what independent evidence now shows the remedies are durable rather than nominal.Medium confidence
- Editorial contextUndischarged: what AFRINIC's instruments certify — and what they still await, Eleven months after the Receiver of AfriNIC Ltd asked the Supreme Court of Mauritius to end the receivership he administers, the retrievable public record still shows no judgment granting or refusing that request. What the record does show — in the registry's own communiqués, notices and member updates — is a chain of certifications, each precise about what it states: a filing made, a hearing held, a judgment awaited since 12 March 2026, a consent recorded, a consent absent. For a registry whose control is anchored in a court order, the distance between "filed" and "granted", between "pending" and "decided", and between a consent recital and its absence is exactly where institutional authority currently sits.Medium confidence
- Editorial contextThe Exit That Stayed Undecided: AFRINIC's Receivership Endgame Is a Docket With No Disposition, Nine months after the Receiver of the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) asked the Supreme Court of Mauritius to end his own tenure, the public record still contains no judgment granting or refusing that relief — and the organisation's newest governance instruments quietly split on whether his consent is still needed at all.Medium confidence
- Editorial contextThe Consent Formula: AFRINIC's Newest Instruments Read Against an Undecided Receivership Exit, On 24 August 2026, AFRINIC's Board announced the appointment of Mike Silber as CEO Designate "with the consent of the Receiver." Three weeks later, on 1 September 2026, the NRO Number Council published a Recommended Draft RIR Governance Document that rewrites how any registry — including one under judicial control — can be recognized, rehabilitated, derecognized or kept alive in an emergency. Between those two dates sits a still-open question that neither instrument answers: the Receiver's application to terminate the receivership itself, filed on 8 October 2025 under Supreme Court of Mauritius cause number SC/COM/MOT/000757/2025 ([Receiver communiqué]( https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/announce/2025/002501.html )), remains without a published judgment in the retrievable public record ([AFRINIC member update]( https://afrinic.net/afrinic-member-update-organisational-stability-and-ongoing-legal-challenges ); [AFRINIC news index]( https://afrinic.net/news.html )). This article reads the operative provisions of AFRINIC's newest governance instruments against that undecided exit, and asks what each one actually certifies, grants, orders or refuses.Medium confidence
Source basis
- Public registry recordPublic registry record evidenceHigh confidence
Related research
- Primary articleHow AFRINIC's Board Was Rebuilt: The Bylaws Provisions That Actually Governed the 2025 ElectionHigh confidence
- Primary articleThe CTO Who Isn't There: Who Held Technology Control at AFRINIC While the Database Remembered a RoleHigh confidence
- Primary articleAFRINIC's Instrument Chain: What Each Deciding Body Actually Ordered, Granted or RefusedHigh confidence
- Primary articleDurable or Reversible: A Ledger of AFRINIC's Rebuilt Governance, Control by ControlHigh confidence
- Primary articleWho Watched While the Board Emptied: AFRINIC's Control Surface Before the ReceivershipHigh confidence
- Primary articleUndischarged: what AFRINIC's instruments certify — and what they still awaitHigh confidence
- Primary articleThe Exit That Stayed Undecided: AFRINIC's Receivership Endgame Is a Docket With No DispositionHigh confidence
- Primary articleThe Consent Formula: AFRINIC's Newest Instruments Read Against an Undecided Receivership ExitHigh confidence
- Primary articleThe Coalition Clause: What the Empowered Community's June–July 2026 Instruments Certified — and RefusedHigh confidence
- Primary articleThe Remedy Path Audit: What AFRINIC's Appeal Committee Can and Cannot Hear Under ReceivershipHigh confidence
- Primary articleThe Consent Recital Is the Evidence: Reading AFRINIC's Board Instruments After 24 August 2026High confidence
- Primary articleThe Receiver's Own Instruments: What AFRINIC's Undischarged Custodian Still ControlsHigh confidence
- Primary articleWhat Deciding Bodies Record: ICANN's .WEB IRP Playbook and AFRINIC's Vanishing Public RecordHigh confidence
- Primary articleAFRINIC under receivership: who can authorise, detect and reverse a change to its routing-security machineryHigh confidence
- Primary articleAFRINIC Allocation Authority: Three Powers, One Pending JudgmentHigh confidence
- Primary articleAFRINIC's Power to Revoke Number Resources Sits in a Contract, Not a ConstitutionHigh confidence
- Primary articleAFRINIC’s continuity controls remain harder to prove than its public machineryHigh confidence