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AFRINIC (African Network Information Center) is the regional Internet registry (RIR) for Africa. Its headquarters are in Ebene City, Mauritius. Alan Barrett is the registry's chief executive officer. , AFRINIC had a staff of 45.
Before AFRINIC was formed, IP addresses for Africa were distributed by the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), and the RIPE NCC.
ICANN provisionally recognized AFRINIC on . The registry became operational on . ICANN gave it final recognition in .
AFRINIC has been allocated the IPv4 address blocks 41.0.0.0/8, 102.0.0.0/8, 105.0.0.0/8 and 197.0.0.0/8 and IPv6 blocks 2c00::/12 and 2001:4200::/23. AFRINIC also administers the address space for 196.0.0.0/8, 154.0.0.0/8 and 165.255.0.0/16.