APNIC , the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, is one of five Regional Internet Registries in the world. It is responsible for providing vital resource allocation and registration services to the Asia Pacific Internet Community, and ensuring the fair distribution and responsible management of IP addresses and the related numeric resources which are required for stable and reliable operation of the Internet globally. Web Host became the member of APNIC in 1999, and had its own AS number, which may assign its IP address to customers.