ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election (theregister.com)

Thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517053 and https://techdirt.com/2025/07/09/litigious-company-demands-re... I now know what The Register was being so surprisingly careful about.

Who are cloud innovation's IP address range customers?

it's all this guy: https://heng.lu/

who is very outspoken against IPv6 adoption because he wants to capitalize on his v4 holdings. THE END.

I don't know if I've heard a sentence from him that isn't a threat of legal action for something

As someone entirely unfamiliar with everything here: can ICANN actually do anything to resolve this situation, and I imagine, ideally retrieve the IPs from this unsavoury individual?

AFRINIC is an utterly incompetent organisation and should be disbanded. Its resources should be managed by one of the other RIRs.

I’ve posted about this saga on LinkedIn a bunch of times and received a cease and desist every time. These people are rent seeking fools who are holding African addresses hostage for profit.

More context: https://medium.com/@emmanuelvitus/afrinic-hope-hijack-and-th...

The only long term solution is to ban ipv4 sales and tell anyone who wants new ip addresses to get ipv6.

IPv4 is a security risk now with all sorts of malicious traffic routed through cgnat proxies.