News and Announcements

As of 13:00 UTC on Thursday, 14 June 2012 the zones listed in the previous update have been restored to the state of 13:30 UTC, Wednesday, 13 June 2012. So all zones we maintain are now available and zones in the list are no longer special. There may be a very few ERX zones maintained by other RIRs

As of 10:45 UTC on Thursday, 14 June 2012, all reverse DNS zones we publish and that are not on the list in the previous update are correct and reflect the state of 13:30 UTC yesterday, 13 June. If you continue to see problems after this time, please contact dns-help@ripe.net with details of what re

As of 15:00 UTC today (13 June 2012), reverse DNS services have been disrupted, which is reported to have resulted in erroneous results. Update 20:45 UTC: Currently, the vast majority of reverse zones has been restored. For a limited number of zones, restoring the zone will take longer than expected

Between 15:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC on 13 June 2012, there was breakage in reverse DNS services. Queries may have resulted in empty results. The problems have been fixed and should propagate out in the coming hours.

Registration is now open for the RIPE 65 Meeting in Amsterdam

World IPv6 Launch takes place today, 6 June 2012, marking a key milestone in the development of the Internet. Major Internet service providers (ISPs), manufacturers and content providers around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services.

On 6 May 2012, the ICANN Board ratified GPP-IPv4-2011, "Global Policy for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms" by IANA.

Based on RIPE Policy Document ripe-476, "Allocating/Assigning Resources to the RIPE NCC", the RIPE NCC pool of Arbiters has approved IPv4-, IPv6- and ASN resources to the RIPE NCC's MENOG IPv6 roadshow network.

New initiative demonstrates ongoing cooperation between region’s governments and technical community

The RIPE NCC is delighted to announce that its Chief Scientist, Daniel Karrenberg, has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame as a Global Connector.