APNIC

APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry administering IP addresses for the Asia Pacific

Community, Policy

Resource delegation audit update: Q2 2025

By Tony Smith

APNIC's resource delegation audit program continued to progress as planned.

Community

Statement from the Number Resource Organization regarding AFRINIC elections

By Hans Petter Holen

Guest Post: The NRO fully supports ICANN's efforts to bring transparency and accountability to the AFRINIC election process.

Homepage highlight

Registration is open for APNIC 60

Register by 31 July to enjoy an early-bird discount on workshop fees. Upskill, grow your professional network, and meet Internet leaders in Da Nang. We look forward to seeing you there!

Tech matters

How Let’s Encrypt reduced the impact of zombie clients

By Samantha Frank

Guest Post: A new rate limit has significantly reduced the load on Let's Encrypt's infrastructure.

Events

Event Wrap: CommunicAsia 2025

By Samantha Douglas

Adli Wahid moderated a panel discussion on cybercrime at CommunicAsia 2025, held in Singapore from 27 to 29 May 2025.

Tech matters

[Podcast] Downloading the root

By George Michaelson

Geoff Huston discusses the DNS root zone and how query load at the root could be reduced by using trusted local copies of the zone.

Tech matters

Ossification and the Internet

By Geoff Huston

Why IP, transport, routing, and DNS protocols can harden and what that means for the future of the public network.

Tech matters

The scourge of excessive AS-SETs

By Doug Madory

Guest Post: Many AS-SETs have grown so large they effectively whitelist most of the routing table, defeating their purpose. How are AS-SETs actually used for filtering, and what can be done when they get too big?

Events

Event Wrap: INNOG 8 and India ISP Conclave 2025

By Samantha Douglas

APNIC conducted training and presented at INNOG 8, held in conjunction with the 2nd India ISP Conclave (IISPC2025) in Delhi, India from 23 to 28 May 2025.