News and Announcements

"cross-nfy:" and "cross-mnt:" attributes will be deprecated in the RIPE Whois Database by 1 February 2004. The RIPE Database previously had a cross notification mechanism. This mechanism used "cross-nfy:" and "cross-mnt:" attributes of route and aut-num objects to notify particular maintainers an

RIPE NCC working with ISC to protect the Internet's global Domain Name System (DNS)

There have been press articles posted over the past year that make statements about the remaining pool of IPv4 address space. A recent article states there is a shortage and that Internet Protocol Numbers will run out some time in the year 2005.

After considering all comments received, the RIR Boards have developed a further revision of the proposed NRO MoU, as shown below. This document has been signed by the RIR CEOs during the ARIN members meeting in Chicago, USA, at 0900 24 October 2003 (local time). The RIR Boards would like to stre

The Reverse Domain Name System (RDNS) project was an effort to streamline reverse DNS operations and make it easier for network range users to manipulate related domain objects. There were two parts to the project: The introduction of a new authorisation mechanism f

We completed the transfer of ASN Registrations in 2002. On 29 July 2004, we started the final stage of the Early Registration Transfer [ERX] Project. This transfer involved the Class C registrations. The AfriNIC ERX transfer was completed on 14 February 2007. This involved the transfer of some regi

5 September 2003 - Last year, during the shutdown of the EUnet network, the RIPE NCC offered to temporarily host its NTP server, "chronos.eu.net" (192.16.202.3), by aliasing the address to one of our NTP servers. The idea was to give people a chance to find an alternative

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the nominations for the representatives to the ASO Address Council - RIPE NCC Region.The selection takes place at the RIPE 46 Meeting, 1 - 5 September 2003 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and follows an open call for nominations published on 30 May 2003. Original c

The RIPE NCC provided an RPSLng prototype RIPE Database server at rpslng.ripe.net, port 53001. It held a snapshot of the RIPE Database and could be updated by sending an email. This database was for test purposes only. Updates to this prototype were not made in the 'real' RIPE Database and were n

Announcement date: 24 April, 2003 The Database Group at the RIPE NCC has been working on restructuring the dbupdate program. This is the part of the RIPE Whois server that processes update requests from users. Benefits The main goal has been to improve the acknowledgement messages that users receive