APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry administering IP addresses for the Asia Pacific
APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry administering IP addresses for the Asia Pacific
Acting on Member and community feedback from the first half of 2025
By Dale Roberts
APNIC is acting on feedback to improve services, products, and Member experience across the region.
Resource delegation audit update: Q2 2025
By Tony Smith
APNIC's resource delegation audit program continued to progress as planned.
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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.
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.
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.
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[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.
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.
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?