Latin America and the Caribbean counties have set up their own regional Internet registry, the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Protocol Address Regional Registry (LACNIC), according to news reports.
Web addresses in those countries was previously handled by the U.S.-based American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN).
The Internet’s key oversight body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) signed off on LACNIC’s formal establishment at a meeting in Shanghai, following months of work training LACNIC’s staff and transferring Internet address database records.
LACNIC will be based in Montevideo, Uruguay.
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