APNIC
27°28′23″S 153°00′51″E / 27.47315°S 153.0141°E
| Founded | 15 January 1993 |
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| Focus | Allocation and registration of IP address space |
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| Members | 7,828 |
Chair of Executive Council | Kenny Huang |
Secretary of Executive Council | Roopinder Singh Perhar |
Treasurer of Executive Council | Yoshinobu Matsuzaki |
| Employees | 122 |
| Website | www |
APNIC (the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is the regional Internet address registry (RIR) for the Asia–Pacific region. It is one of the world's five RIRs and is part of the Number Resource Organization (NRO).
APNIC provides numbers resource allocation and registration services that support the global operation of the internet. It is a nonprofit, membership-based organization whose members include Internet service providers, telecommunication providers, data centers, universities, banks, national Internet registries, and similar organizations that have their own networks.