One Company Accounts for 80% of AFRINIC's IP Addresses Being Used Outside Africa

On October 28, 2026, an address in a block registered to a network in the Democratic Republic of the Congo answered a ping from Lisbon in 0.28 milliseconds. At that speed, it can only be within about 30 kilometers of the city. Its registration says Africa, but it is in Portugal. This is one example of a broader discrepancy between where IP addresses are registered and where they're actually used. Every IP address on the Internet is registered with one of five regional registries, each serving r