Contents

• How to use this portal
• Organisation: general information
• Organisation contacts
• How will the resources be used?
• IPv4 resource request : additional information
• IPv6 address plan
• ASN-Eligibility
• Document upload

How to use this portal

1. Register an account

Enter the mandatory fields:

• First name
• Last name
• Email
• Phone
• General Address
• City
• Country
• Password

Some fields are optional: Job title, Organisation and Postal Code.

Your email and password will be your login credentials.

2. Sign in with your login credentials

Sign in using the email address and password used in step 1.

If you have forgotten your password, you can use the "Forgot password" feature to reset it. Enter the email address that you used for registration and you will receive a link with details on how you can reset your password. Please note that this link will expire within 48 hours. If you have not changed your password by then, you will have to click on the "Forgot Password" link again to receive a new link.

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Organisation: general information

Enter the mandatory fields:

• Organisation name: Please enter the organisation's full legal name, including the legal form. For example "AFRINIC Ltd". We will list your legal organisation name and form in AFRINIC's internal and external databases. If your organisation is registered with the local chamber of commerce, then you should use the legal name and form as specified on your company's registration certificate.
• Industry: Please select the category that best suits your industry type.
• Email
• Phone
• General/Billing Address: Please provide a physical address. PO Box addresses are not acceptable.
• How long has your organisation been operating?

There are certain optional fields: Fax, Website, Founding document URL and Postal Code.

Founding document URL: You can include the URL of your founding document if it is available online. A founding document details how an organisation is established and governed. Examples are constitution, certificate of Incorporation, Act of parliament etc.

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Organisation contacts

Enter the mandatory fields:

• CEO/Managing Director: Please include the contact details of the organisation's CEO/Managing Director.

• Registered Contacts:

  There are three types of contacts: Administrative, Billing and Technical. We require at least two different contacts and covering all the three types (i.e the same contacts may be registered for more than one role).

  The rights of each type of contact differs:

  • Administrative Contact: The administrative contact will have the overview of the member's account.
  • Technical Contact: The technical contact will be able to register resource assignments and reverse delegations and request additional resources on behalf of the organisation.
  • Billing Contact: The billing contact will be able to view the organisation's billing summary, download an invoice as well as pay by credit card using the on-line payment system available in the portal.

  All the registered contacts are able to maintain and update their organisation's details (address, e-mail address and telephone number).

  If you already have a person object in the AFRINIC WHOIS database, please select "Use NIC-HDL" and specify your nic-hdl. For example, CS10-AFRINIC.

  person: Customer Services
  address: Ebene
  phone: +230 4035100
  e-mail: cs@afrinic.net
  nic-hdl: CS10-AFRINIC
  changed: radha@afrinic.net 20150417
  source: AFRINIC

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How will the resources be used?

Please specify how will you be using the requested IP resources.

• Customers/Subscribers: IP addresses needed for those services that will be offered to your customers or subscribers, for e.g Internet access, Cloud services,Digital and media content, Hosting, Co-location, VPN or VPS.
• Internal Network: IP addresses that is used for running your own networks and not for any sub-delegation or reassignment to third parties, for e.g Network equipment, Services/servers or Staff/users.
• External Organisation: Smaller block of IP addresses that will be further assigned to other organisations, for example another legal entity.

Based on your selection, you will need to indicate additional information on the exact use of the IP addresses in the next section.

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IPv4 resource request : additional information

In this section, you will need to provide detailed information on how you will be using the requested IPv4 address space. Based on the information collected on the previous page, you will be presented with a list of services that you might be running on your network. If any is missing, please add it using the "Add" button.

For each of the service that will require IP addresses, please input the total number of IP addresses that you are requesting under the column "Total". We do need how much you will use within the next "3 months" and up to "8 months". In addition, the location where these addresses will be used per service is required as well under the "Location" column.

Please ensure to provide as much information possible to help the Hostmasters understand your needs and speed up the evaluation of your resource request.

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IPv6 address plan

Resource Members are generally Local Internet Registry (LIR) and End-Users (EU).

• Local Internet Registry (LIR): A Local Internet Registry (LIR) is an Internet Registry (IR) that receives allocations from AFRINIC and primarily sub-allocates or assigns address space to their customers. LIRs are generally ISPs.
• End User (EU): Any entity, corporate or individual that receive services (Number Resources assignments) directly from AFRINIC for exclusive use on its own service infrastructure.

If you are an LIR, you may receive a minimum /32 block as per the IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy.

If you are an End-user, you may receive a minimum /48 block as per the IPv6 Provider Independent (PI) Assignment for End-Sites.

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ASN : Eligibility

In order to qualify for an AS number, the requesting organization must be an AFRINIC resource member and fulfil any of the following requirements:

• Interconnect (including peering) with more than one AS.
• Show a unique routing policy or demonstrate a technical need for a coordinated globally unique ASN.

An organization will also be eligible if it can demonstrate that it will meet the above criteria upon receiving an ASN (or within the following six months).

All requests for ASNs under these criteria will be evaluated using the guidelines described in RFC1930 "Guidelines for the creation, selection and registration of an Autonomous System (AS)".

AFRINIC will require the AS Number and the authoritative contact details of a transit provider/peer an organisation intend to interconnect with in order to confirm the peering agreement/negotiations.

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Document upload

We encourage you to upload all requested files since these are required for the smooth evaluation of your request. Certain documents are mandatory and these must be provided to us. Documents that are not mandatory may help us to evaluate your request quicker if you provide them alongside the mandatory documents. Please be advised that the evaluation may take longer than usual if we do not receive all relevant documents.

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