Millions of internet addresses assigned to Africa have been waylaid, some fraudulently, including through insider machinations linked to a former top employee of the nonprofit that assigns the continent’s addresses. The internet service providers and others to whom AFRINIC assigns IP address blocks aren’t purchasing them. Africa has been allocated just 3% of the world’s first-generation IP addresses. Making things worse: the alleged theft of millions of AFRINIC IP addresses, involving the organization’s former No. He shook up management and began trying to reclaim wayward IP address blocks.
