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As the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, Middle East and Central Asia, we serve over 20,000 members in 76 countries. We register IP addresses and ASNs, and act as the secretariat to the RIPE community.
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Notice to the Empowered Community Administration and the Decisional Participants that, on 3 May 2026, the ICANN Board approved a Standard Bylaws Amendment to Article 27 of the ICANN Bylaws.
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The Address Supporting Organization has received a notification from the ICANN Secretary concerning the ICANN Board’s approval of Fundamental Bylaws Amendments to Articles 17 and 18 of the ICANN Bylaws.
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We will be closed on Thursday, 14 May 2026.
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The updated version of the Draft RIPE NCC Strategy 2027-31 is now available.
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The NRO NC has published a status report providing an update on the ongoing work to update ICP-2 by the RIR Governance Document.
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We have published our second sanctions transparency report of the year.
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Mailing ListsTwo charging scheme options have been published and will be voted on at the RIPE NCC General Meeting May 2026.
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We're an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation that supports the infrastructure of the Internet through technical coordination in our service region. Our most prominent activity is to act as the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) providing global Internet resources and related services (IPv4, IPv6 and AS Number resources) to members in our service region.
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