News and Announcements

In advance of the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) April 2012, the Draft RIPE NCC Annual Report 2011 is now available.The GM takes place on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 at the Grand Union Hotel in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

On Wednesday, 14 March 2012, the RIPE NCC, working with the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) in the UK, organised a meeting for Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in London. The event was organised to coincide with the E-Crime Congress being held in London, which annually attracts LEA representati

In preparation for the ratification of "Global Policy for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms by the IANA" (GPP-IPv4-2011) by the ICANN Board of Directors, we will remove from the available pool of IPv4 address space the IPv4 legacy space that has been returned to the RIPE NCC by various memb

On Monday, 27 February, we discovered that a RIPE NCC web server was abused and used as an HTTP proxy to distribute malicious code to other websites using an IP address 193.0.6.136 allocated to the RIPE NCC.

The percentage of IPv6-enabled networks has increased in all regions over the last year, a new article on RIPE Labs has found.This time last year, the Netherlands had the highest percentage of IPv6-enabled networks (31%). But Norway has made a huge leap over the past year and has surpassed the Nethe

The RIPE NCC Roundtable Meeting for Governments and Regulators took place in Brussels on 21 February 2012. This was the first time that the RIPE NCC has held such an event in Brussels, and it attracted an audience of more than 50 government representatives, law enforcement agencies and RIPE comm

On Monday, 20 February, we discovered that the application servers belonging to the labs.ripe.net production cluster were compromised over the weekend.  We investigated this and found no evidence that any harm was done to the servers. We also found no evidence that this has spread to other servers,

On 8 November 2011, following an order from the Dutch police, the RIPE NCC temporarily locked four specific blocks of IPv4 addresses in the RIPE Registry to prevent any changes being made to their registration.

We are proud to announce that over 1,024 RIPE Atlas probes are now active all over the world, reaching our target number of probes for 2011.This important milestone was achieved by the dedicated work of the RIPE NCC staff and the support of RIPE NCC members and the RIPE Atlas hosts and sponsors.We e

On Saturday, 17 December, between 09:00-18:00, the RIPE NCC will migrate more data from our current fileservers to new fileservers.