What is NIR?

APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) responsible for allocating and registering Internet number resources—like IP addresses—to organizations across 56 economies in the Asia Pacific region. To better serve specific areas, APNIC sometimes works with National Internet Registries (NIRs), which operate under APNIC policies to handle local allocations and registrations in the community’s native language. There are currently seven such NIRs, each dedicated to supporting its own regional Internet community: APJII (Indonesia), CNNIC (China), IRINN (India), JPNIC (Japan), KISA (Korea), TWNIC (Taiwan) and VNNIC (Vietnam).