ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/afrinic_election_annulled_why/

85•rntn•4h ago

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JdeBP•3h ago

Thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517053 and https://techdirt.com/2025/07/09/litigious-company-demands-re... I now know what The Register was being so surprisingly careful about.

mkj•2h ago

Who are cloud innovation's IP address range customers?

harvey9•2h ago

Other articles suggest data centers outside of Africa

mkj•1h ago

Is that legal?

MaxPock•39m ago

Some corrupt employee sold millions of IPs to this guy and he's been reselling them outside of Africa .

ethan_smith•1h ago

Cloud Innovation primarily leases their AFRINIC-allocated IPv4 addresses to entities outside Africa, including datacenters and hosting companies in Asia and Europe, which is precisely what sparked the original legal disputes with AFRINIC over resource utilization policies.

oncallthrow•1m ago

Dubious/bulletproof hosting companies

this15testing•2h ago

it's all this guy: https://heng.lu/

who is very outspoken against IPv6 adoption because he wants to capitalize on his v4 holdings. THE END.

I don't know if I've heard a sentence from him that isn't a threat of legal action for something

Y_Y•2h ago

But he earned those addresses by the sweat of his brow! He's entitled to whatever the market will bear and more, because numbers aren't free!

Loughla•1h ago

I don't know who that guy is, but if he's against IPv6, why does he say;

>promotes accountable leadership, fair market practices, and adoption of the next generation of IPv6 addresses.

viraptor•1h ago

Why is NK called Democratic People's Republic if it's not? The marketing copy can say whatever it needs to.

evanjrowley•1h ago

I learned about him yesterday via this article. It also frames into context articles I've seen in the past about AFRINIC's IPv4 space being lost to foreigners. https://medium.com/@emmanuelvitus/afrinic-hope-hijack-and-th...

A couple months ago he gave a talk Why Buying IP Addresses is a Scam in Washington DC. It's a lot of complaining about who owns IP addresses: https://youtu.be/dAqXo5DB42E?si=7RpoUFXM3KXziN-Y

It appears the entire channel and Number Resource Society is just a front for his own opinions: https://m.youtube.com/@numberresourcesociety

pityJuke•9m ago

As someone entirely unfamiliar with everything here: can ICANN actually do anything to resolve this situation, and I imagine, ideally retrieve the IPs from this unsavoury individual?

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