News and Announcements

In April 1992, the RIPE NCC was established to coordinate and support the activities of the RIPE community and to function as a European Internet Registry (later a Regional Internet Registry) responsible for the distribution and management of Internet number resources. This month, the RIPE NCC celebrates 20 years of serving the RIPE community.

On 23 March 2012, the RIPE NCC was joined by its 8,000th member, marking a milestone in the history of the Amsterdam based, not-for-profit organisation.

Below is a brief summary of the summons the RIPE NCC filed against the state of the Netherlands. This summary was created to provide members and other interested parties with an overview of the summons. The full summons is available only in Dutch and is available as a PDF.

We're pleased to announce that RIPE 65 will take place at the Okura Hotel, Amsterdam, from 24-28 September, 2012.Book your hotel room soon and benefit from the early-bird discount at the RIPE 65 Meeting venue. More information and hotel information

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