News and Announcements

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.

The RIPE NCC RPKI Validator 2.0 is a comprehensive open-source toolset for Resource Certification (RPKI) validation, enabling network operators to make better routing decisions based on RPKI data.

On Saturday, 3 December, from 09:00 - 18:00, the RIPE NCC will carry out scheduled maintenance on its core storage infrastructure.

The RIPE NCC intends to take the Dutch public prosecutor to court over a police order it received on 8 November 2011 to lock a registration of four IP address blocks in the RIPE Registry until 22 March 2012. Read: RIPE NCC Blocks Registration

The results of the Membership and Stakeholder Survey 2011 were presented at the RIPE 63 Meeting, which took place in Vienna, Austria from 31 October-4 November 2011. Read the full report. These large-scale surveys are used by the RIPE NCC to assess its current service offering and to shape its str

The RIPE NCC received a temporary order from the Dutch police to prevent any changes from being made to a registration of four specific blocks of IPv4 address space in the RIPE Registry. The order is effective from 8 November 2011 until 22 March 2012. The RIPE NCC has informed those listed as contac

The RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) was held 2-3 November 2011 adjacent to the RIPE 63 Meeting in Vienna. There were 117 attendees, excluding RIPE NCC staff and observers from the other Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). The RIPE NCC would like to thank its membership for the input and support give