Topic
Registry Governance
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Number Resource Society
Two Titles, One Question: Who Decides When a Registry Stops Being a Registry?
The instrument that governs how a Regional Internet Registry is recognised — and, in its own title, derecognised — closed its second public consultation on 7 November. The operative clauses were not in the record I could obtain. That gap is the story, and it is a bigger one than…
Latin America and Caribbean Regional ISP
Brazil's small ISPs queue for IPv4 while NIC.br counts 60% on IPv6
LACNIC's own front page now leads with a waiting list for IPv4 addresses. Inside Brazil, NIC.br distributes the numbers and reports 60% of internet users with IPv6 enabled. The scarce item reaches a regional provider as a place in line and an engineering bill — not yet as a…
Africa Institutional
Three Databases Disagree About Ghana's Internet Exchange. Not One Is a Switch.
On 9 November 2026 the entity registered as Internet Exchange Ghana LBG appeared in our own directory as an AFRINIC member with peering-IXP status, returned nothing at all to a PeeringDB name query, and served no readable page at ixpghana.org. Three records, three answers, and…
Leaders
Abdelaziz Hilali's Title Outlived the Board. Nobody Published What It Still Commands.
AFRINIC carries him as vice-chair while a court-appointed receiver-manager runs the registry, and the registry's own front page concedes that the judgments setting out the reservation of powers with the board "are not fully public". The office is documented. Its authority is not.
Asia-Pacific Institutional
Seventy-Nine Models, Forty-Four Institutes: The Centre That Moved Its Scarcity
For thirty years the scarce thing this institution administered was a number. Its own platform pages now say the scarce thing is a model catalogue — and the catalogue, not the fibre, is where the control sits.
CASE FILE
Four Registries Deep: Why One Card Cannot Hold the Internet Registry System
A company-classified directory entry tagged to Mauritius says it "performs registry functions for internet number resources." The standards document that defines that function describes four levels of institutions performing it in sequence, each serving the one above. The card…
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services
Signed, Sealed, Unwatched: The .au Registry's Control Test Ends Where the Contract Begins
Australia publishes a rule for spotting a change in control of the company that runs .au. It applies from the moment a bid lands until the moment the contract is signed, and not one day longer — which is precisely the period in which nothing interesting has happened yet.
Story
A Membership Fee Filed as an Internet Registry: The RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2020 Record
One public entry describes a Switzerland-based internet registry that performs registry functions for internet number resources. The page that entry cites presents a numbered charging scheme. Both sentences come from the same publisher, and only one of them describes something…
North America Regional ISP
The $20 Billion Handshake, and the Registry That Waits for Paperwork
Verizon announced a definitive all-cash agreement for Frontier Communications in September 2024 at $38.50 a share. Shares settle on a corporate calendar. The number resources behind the network settle on a documentary one, and no press release hurries a registry.
North America National Telecom
Lumen sells fibre; its registry file still says Level 3 Parent, LLC
Lumen sells fibre; its registry file still says Level 3 Parent, LLC 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…
ICANN
AS13: The Number the Registry Kept for Itself
AS13: The Number the Registry Kept for Itself 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 ICANN intelligence…
Story
Cloud Innovation is a Member. AFRINIC must respect the judgment.
The Court settled Cloud Innovation’s membership. The Receiver’s demand for administrative removal challenges the execution of that judgment and the rights of every entitled member.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom
Telefonica Brasil Sells 5G. It Also Runs a Top-Level Domain.
The root-zone record for .vivo names Telefonica Brasil S.A. as Manager, status Active, delegated since 2016-07-15, with an RDAP endpoint under its own name. That is a real operating duty with a date and a street address. It is not an address stock, a licence, or a balance sheet…
Number Resource Society
Two notices, one seat number: the Address Council's twenty-one days
Alan Barrett died, and Seat 9 on the ICANN Board of Directors fell open. The Address Council filled it on 25 August 2026. On 15 September 2026 the same Council called for nominations to Seat 9. Two dated notices, one seat number, and no line in the record that joins them.
Leaders
He Signed the 2020 Accounts. The Profile Remembers a 2011 Committee Chair.
AFRINIC's own resolution pages trace Subramanian Moonesamy from the author of a registry-privacy proposal to a board chairman authorised to sign audited accounts. The registry's structured profile of the same man holds one line, dated 2011, and eight declarations that nothing…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
Nscale Glomfjord AS Is Real in the RIPE Registry. The 30 MW Is Not.
A Norwegian limited company with a company number, a registry entry and a street address in Glomfjord is the most checkable thing Nscale's flagship AI campus has produced. Reporting puts 6.4 MW of a planned 30 MW running at that address and the build about six months behind. Both…
Story
ARIN Suspended Mailing-List Posts While Two Last Calls Ran
The policy deadline stayed on the page while ARIN closed a public posting channel. Its status page says the service recovered; it leaves the fate of attempted comments unrecorded.
Story
RIPEstat’s API Came Back. Its BGP Clock Was Still Running Behind.
A 32k file-descriptor ceiling tripped the RIS Looking Glass database. The interface recovered first; a slice of RRC25’s peer data was still catching up that evening.
Story
AFRINIC set a Friday date for its Co-Chair slate. Monday’s page still has June.
The 18 November consensus selection has a venue and a timetable. The public election page has yet to name the candidates for it.
Story
RIPE’s RPKI archive was fine. Its front desk forgot the publishers.
A routine Krill restart left delegated CAs outside the publication door for two hours and 43 minutes. The old records stayed put.