ARIN
Acronym for the American Registry for Internet Numbers. ARIN, founded in 1997, is a non-profit organization that registers and administers IP numbers for North America, a portion of the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. ARIN is one of four regional Internet registries.
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