Topic
Registry Governance
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Leaders
Four Years, One Chair: What the JARING Paper Trail Cannot Decide
Dr. Mohamed Awang Lah is credited with founding Malaysia's first Internet service provider. The documents that describe him running it disagree by five years on when that began, and not one of them is an appointment.
North America Regional ISP
Frontier Survived the Merger, So the Registry Line Didn't Have to Move
The FCC, New York and California wrote the enforceable terms into dated orders. The registry had a quieter instruction: Frontier walked out of the merger as the same legal person it walked in as, so the holder line behind the network never needed to change at all.
History
The Court Cleared the Liens. The Registry Made the Buyer.
On 26 April 2011 a Delaware bankruptcy judge authorised Nortel Networks Inc. to sell roughly 666,624 legacy IPv4 numbers to Microsoft. The order settled liens, competing claims and the identity of the seller. It did not make anyone a registrant. That happened in a second…
Leaders
The Gate, Not the Vault: What ARIN Can and Cannot Do to an Address Holder
John Curran's registry does not hold your addresses. It holds the paperwork that decides whether anyone else may have them, and the difference becomes visible the moment a legacy block with no signature on file tries to move.
North America National Telecom
Charter Bought the Network. ARIN Kept the Leash.
Charter Bought the Network. ARIN Kept the Leash. intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The North America…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Vodafone Bought the Network in May. The Register Answers a Different Question
A reported £4.3 billion cash payment gave Vodafone full ownership of Britain's biggest mobile combination. The registry that names who holds the numbering resources underneath that network runs a separate procedure, on its own paperwork — and a share purchase, on its own, settles…
North America National Telecom
Lumen sold four million fiber locations. The registry counts legal entities, not locations
The $5.75 billion Mass Markets sale was counted in locations, customers and states. None of those units is a registry unit, which is why the deal's own arithmetic cannot say who holds the address space.
CASE FILE
Zayo's IP Addresses Cannot Be Sold Without Zayo
There is a comforting arithmetic in infrastructure finance: count the scarce things, price them against the last trade, add them to the pile. Registered IPv4 looks like it belongs in that pile. It is finite, it is held under a legal name, and the registry that assigns it…
Leaders
The .au Registry Changed Hands. The Instrument That Did It Is Not in the Record.
An allocation to Kevin Robert Elz of Melbourne University in 1986. An industry self-regulatory body assembled over roughly five years in the 1990s. ICANN assent in 2001, a competitive registration market from 1 July 2002, and a technical registry tendered out to a named company.…
Leaders
A Confidence Score of 0.95 and Four Unverified Facts About the Same Man
The person record for Indrek Kalluste lists his current title, his organisation affiliation, his country context and his relationship to infrastructure events as things still to be verified. In the next field it grades its own confidence at 0.95. Both statements sit in the same…
Number Resource Society
A Name in the Contact Field, and an Institution That Is Not There
A Name in the Contact Field, and an Institution That Is Not There intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The…
Afrinic SAGA
A Registry Handover Moves Three Things. Two Left a Paper Trail.
Recognition, administration and the registration record itself are separable layers of the RIPE NCC–AFRINIC transition. The published instruments reviewed here settle the first two. The third is a custody question, and the record that would answer it was not obtained in this…
ICANN
One Sentence in ICANN's Bylaws Creates the Address Council. Five Registries Decide Who Sits On It.
The Address Supporting Organization's Address Council nominates two ICANN Board seats, and ICANN's Bylaws never say who its members are. Article 9 points at another body's roster, and the registries' own processes fill it.
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP
A Cable, an AS Number and No Confirmed Operator
A Cable, an AS Number and No Confirmed Operator intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The Asia-Pacific…
Leaders
Seat 2 Says Three Years. The News Page Says Receivership.
AFRINIC's board page gives Emmanuel Adewale Adedokun a three-year term in Seat 2. The registry's own news page carries a receiver notice made under Mauritius's Insolvency Act and dated 17 February 2025. Two offices, two instruments, and no document in the reviewed record that…
Global Regional ISP
Cogent's world map does not name the signatory
Cogent tells the market it runs one Tier 1 optical network across 309 markets in 58 countries, and that it booked $231.2 million of service revenue in the third quarter of 2026. On the registry side, a reader reaches an ARIN handle, an AS number and a profile entry. Those are…
Story
The File Knows What Philip Smith Signed. It Cannot Say What He Ran.
A person record with three authorship rows, two Cisco Systems targets and six RIR policy documents scores complete on identity, people and legal type — then reports zero prefixes, zero relationships, zero contacts and a final confidence score of zero.
Number Resource Society
Six AS Numbers, One Repeated Name, and the Hole in the Middle of the Record
Six AS Numbers, One Repeated Name, and the Hole in the Middle of the Record intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…
CASE FILE
The Field Says Person. The Name Says Authenticator App.
One directory card, read on 10 November 2026, carries a person type, a Taiwan country field, a confidence value of 0.85 and a single evidence line with no address behind it. Its own open-questions list asks a reviewer to verify the title and affiliation the card already asserts.…
CASE FILE
AS211386 Has a Name, Not a Custodian
AS211386 Has a Name, Not a Custodian intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The CASE FILE intelligence context…