Remove Cloud Remove Internet Remove Nonprofit
article thumbnail

Concerns Grow As AFRINIC’s Funds Are Frozen Over IPv4 Dispute

Kentik

An evolving legal dispute involving AFRINIC, Africa’s regional internet registry, has led to the freezing of the organization’s bank account and concerns about the stability of the continent’s internet operations. The global internet is administered by five regional internet registries (RIRs): APNIC, ARIN, RIPE NCC, LACNIC and AFRINIC.

article thumbnail

Network AF, Episode 7: From Juilliard to bare metal with Zac Smith

Kentik

That includes growing Voxel, the Linux-based hosting platform that sold to Internap in 2011, into one of the early, leading cloud-hosting companies. That’s where he learned he could make more money getting people connected to the internet via AOL discs than in working for minimum wage at the box office at Juilliard.

Network 83