Useful Internet Resources

• The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the starting point for all names and numbers, but most of the useful info is with the organizations it delegates to such as IANA, Regional IP assigners, and Domain Registrars.
• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has service port assignments, protocol numbers, a database of TLDs, etc.
• Whois servers for the Regional IP assigners:
  • American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has IP assignments for the Americas.
  • Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE) has IP assignments for Europe and the Middle-East
  • Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) has IP assignments for Asia and the Pacific
• The InterNIC used to be the source of all names, but mostly delegates to the various registrars any more.
• Everything you need to know about DNS is all gathered in one place by The DNS Resources Directory
• The authoritative source for Requests for Comment is IETF.
• The Ohio State CIS Department keeps] an archive of Internet Requests for Comments (RFC), which has a nicer interface.

Drew Sudell Last modified: Thu Apr 18 10:47:42 EDT 2002