RIPE NCC in the News

RIPE NCC, which allocates IP addresses in Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, has started to hand out IPv4 addresses from the last block that it holds, the organisation said on Friday. (Source: Tech World)

RIPE NCC, which allocates IP addresses in Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, has started to hand out IPv4 addresses from the last block that it holds, the organization said on Friday. (Source: PC Advisor).

RIPE NCC, which handles the complicated business of internet registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia, is down to its last packet of IP4 internet addresses. It’s time to start panic-buying strings of numbers. (Source: Gizmodo UK)

On Friday 14 September, 2012, the RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, distributed the last blocks of IPv4 address space from the available pool. (Source: Domain Pulse)

The RIPE NCC, the regional internet registry for Asia, Europe and the Middle East, warns that it's down to assigning its last set of 16.8 million IPv4 addresses as of this weekend. (Source: Engadget)

Europe is nearing its capacity of old-style IP addresses, according to the body that issues them in the territory. (Source: Digital Spy)

"The day has finally come," said Axel Pawlik, Managing Director of RIPE NCC, that dishes out Internet addresses to European ISPs and other companies. "When the Internet was first designed it seemed highly unlikely that IP address space would ever be an issue," he added, according to The Telegraph. (Source: CNET UK)

Europe has almost exhausted its stock of old-style internet addresses. Strict rationing of these addresses - called IPv4 - has been started by the body that hands them out in Europe. (Source: BBC)

The Internet’s transition to a new address scheme, IPv6, reached a new milestone today as the European regulator RIPE NCC opened up its last block of older addresses. (Source: TechWeek Europe)

The five Internet Registries now have just 16.8 million IPv4 addresses left each, according to RIPE NCC – the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. (Source: Computer Weekly)