Number Resource Society
Every AFRINIC member belongs on the register of members
AFRINIC’s register of members names eight directors and one company. NRS calls on AFRINIC to enter every eligible resource member in it.
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13 November 2026. The Number Resource Society (NRS) calls on AFRINIC to enter every eligible resource member in its register of members.
Nine names on the register
The Registrar of Companies’ record of AFRINIC, issued on 28 October 2026, lists nine members: eight directors, each registered on 12 September 2025, and Cloud Innovation Ltd, entered on 9 October 2026 by order of the Supreme Court of Mauritius.
“The networks that hold addresses through AFRINIC pay its fees and are supposed to elect its Board,” a spokesperson for NRS said. “A members’ company that lists its directors and leaves out its members has the register upside down.”
What the Court ordered
The order of 11 June 2025 directs “the rectification of the register of members of the African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) Ltd to add details of Cloud Innovation Ltd as per the criteria set out at Section 91 of the Companies Act as its member in the category of Member therein”. It put one resource member on the register.
Cloud Innovation states that, on its information, more than 2,000 resource members have been left off. NRS asks AFRINIC to enter them: every eligible resource member, each on its own entitlement. No member should need a court order to appear on the register of its own company.
Two changes that leave members with less
NRS also points to two changes that reduce what a member can do. The transfer policy ratified on 4 February 2026 states that “AFRINIC-issued IPv4 cannot be transferred out of the region”. And the draft constitution now before the community would, in Cloud Innovation’s reading of its Articles 7.4 and 8.6, drop the members’ power to set AFRINIC’s general policies and let officers suspend or end a membership. Cloud Innovation sets out that reading in AFRINIC’s members: the owners missing from the register.
“Own your IP is not a slogan about one company,” the spokesperson said. “It is the question every operator should put to its registry: if you end my membership tomorrow, what happens to the addresses my customers run on?”
What NRS asks
AFRINIC belongs to its members. NRS asks AFRINIC to enter every eligible resource member in its register of members, and asks every operator to put the three questions in Own your IP to its registry.
If your network is an AFRINIC resource member, ask AFRINIC in writing whether your name is on the register of members, and tell NRS what it answers.
About NRS
The Number Resource Society (NRS) is a global non-profit advocating for IP address ownership, decentralized Internet governance and member empowerment.