- IP addresses are not for sale, instead, they are public resources administered by the Internet Numbers Registry System for the entire Internet community.
- IP addresses delegated by the Regional registries, such as APNIC are not "owned" by the Members.
- IP addresses will be reclaimed by APNIC when the Membership is terminated.
- In a block addresses ranges are referred to by their prefix length like /24 ("slash 24"), refers to 256 addresses.
- There are total five Regional Internet Registries (RIR's).
- To improve allocation and registration services for the Asia Pacific Internet community, APNIC provides for the establishment of National Internet Registries (NIRs).
- A Local Internet Registry (LIR) is generally an Internet Service Provider (ISP), and may assign address space to its own network infrastructure and to users of its network services.
- LIR customers may be other "downstream" ISPs, which further assign address space to their own customers.
How to purchase ip block ?
- Go to the official website of apnic and click on get ip addresses.
- Click on apply now and fill the details.
- We can also search the ip address data in apnic whois.