Category:Regional Internet Registries

Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) manage, distribute, and register public Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and autonomous system numbers (ASNs) within their respective regions.

There are currently five RIRs:

• AfriNIC
• APNIC
• ARIN
• LACNIC
• RIPE NCC

IANA delegates large ranges of IP addresses to the RIRs, which then allocate the resources within their regions.