Summary

  • APNIC’s 27 October 2026 transfer row sends the complete 199.166.24.0/21, 2,048 IPv4 addresses, from ARIN to Nova Global ICT Kabushiki Kaisha in Japan. Its source-organisation cell reads American Registry for Internet Numbers/DI-649.
  • ARIN’s row for the same range, date and recipient names Direct Impression, Inc. as source. ARIN’s own RDAP resolves DI-649 to that company. A handle, rather than a matching display name, joins the two public ledgers.

A transfer ledger is meant to let a stranger answer a simple question: who held the address block before it changed hands? On 27 October, two registries gave that stranger two different-looking strings. APNIC’s cumulative transfer file put American Registry for Internet Numbers/DI-649 in the source-organisation cell for 199.166.24.0/21. ARIN’s cumulative transfer file put Direct Impression, Inc. in the corresponding field. Both name Nova Global ICT Kabushiki Kaisha as recipient. The address range and date match. The apparent gap is in the label.

The slash does the work. ARIN’s entity record for DI-649 currently gives the organisation name as Direct Impression, Inc.. That makes the APNIC cell legible: it combines a registry name with an ARIN handle, whereas the ARIN transfer row prints the holder name. The handle is an identifier for looking up the organisation, not an allegation that ARIN was the commercial seller. The public records describe a resource transfer; they do not publish its price or agreement.

The numbers are unusually tidy. ARIN’s original and transferred sets both run from 199.166.024.000 through 199.166.031.255; normalize the padded octets and the range is precisely 199.166.24.0/21. Nothing in the row suggests a split. APNIC records 19940426 as the previous delegation date, and ARIN records the source registration at 26 April 1994, 04:00 UTC. The transaction is dated 27 October 2026 in both files, with ARIN recording 13:35:54 UTC. Those are separate clocks: the old registration, the transfer, and the present database objects.

APNIC’s current RDAP answer for the prefix spans 199.166.24.0 to 199.166.31.255, names the network NGIKK-JP, marks it ALLOCATED PORTABLE, and points to Nova Global ICT Kabushiki Kaisha’s organisation object in Japan. The current destination is therefore observable without treating the transfer file as a live ownership register. ARIN’s DI-649 entity record was itself created in 2025; its recent object date must not be mistaken for the 1994 address registration.

This is where registry transparency earns its keep. The public can reconcile two files because the prefix, recipient, date and handle survive intact. A reader who compared names only could count two different sources, or imagine a mystery intermediary. The records support neither leap. The name is at the end of a verifiable lookup, and the address block ends in a current APNIC object. A transaction agreement would be needed to explain consideration or motives; routing history would be needed to establish any operational move. The ledgers answer the narrower, indispensable question: how to trace the registered holder across the boundary.