Whois
Gerald Combs
gerald at ethereal.com
Thu Oct 23 20:21:59 CDT 2003
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Brian Densmore wrote:
> > with a whois address at whois.ripe.net. I think there's
> > one for Asia as well, but I can't remember it.
> Asia-Pacific whois
> whois.apnic.net
There is also LACNIC (Latin America). IANA is responsible for
distributing IPv4 and v6 address blocks to each of the four regional
registries :APNIC (Asia/Pacific), ARIN (North America, Southern Africa),
LACNIC (Latin America) and RIPE (Europe, Middle East, Northern Africa,
Central Asia):
http://www.iana.org/ipaddress/ip-addresses.htm
The regional registries then distribute address blocks to large ISPs and
smaller registries, which eventually make their way to you.
BTW, for anyone that still believes there's an IPv4 address shortage,
check out how many /8s are still marked reserved:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
This doesn't count the blocks that the regional registries, large ISPs,
etc. are keeping in reserve.
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