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

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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.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018

High Scalability

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC! They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 31st, 2018

High Scalability

GossiTheDog : This is wild - the White House are rolling back cybersecurity baseline standards for government (saying they will issue new ones in the future), and ditching deployment of DNSSEC and IPv6 (as mandated under Obama admin) saying they are already in place (they aren’t). They'll love you even more. More more more.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018

High Scalability

40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.