News and Announcements

Global initiative by the Internet community aims to protect users against phishing and other online scams

In the year since its launch, RIPE Labs has grown into a dynamic resource that allows the RIPE community to present and discuss new Internet-related tools and ideas.

24 June 2010 - From Thursday, 1 July 2010, the RIPE NCC will start to allocate enough IPv4 address space to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) to meet their needs for a period of up to nine months. The RIPE NCC and the LIRs will also start to assign enough address space to meet their needs for a perio

17 May 2010 - At the RIPE 60 Meeting on 7 May 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic, the RIPE community issued the following statement: The RIPE community supports all efforts to assist in the deployment of IPv6, especially in developing countries. However, we note concerns being expressed within the ITU b

Dr. Rob Blokzijl, founding member and Chair of RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens), was made an Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau (Orde van Oranje Nassau) in an official ceremony conducted by the acting Mayor of Amsterdam, Lodewijk Asscher, on 12 May 2010.

Nigel Titley and Remco van Mook were elected by the membership to take the available seats on the Executive Board.

K-root, one of the 13 root name servers, distributing the root zone signed with DNSSEC as part of a global deployment plan that will see all 13 root zone servers signed by 1 July 2010.

15 March 2010 - As outlined by Joe Abley, ICANN, on the RIPE DNS Working Group mailing list, the DNS root servers have switched to a signed .ARPA zone this week. As the operator of K-root, the RIPE NCC has rolled out this change during a maintenance window on 15 March 2010 between 09:00-13:00 UTC.

The RIPE NCC recently requested that it be allowed to assign an Autonomous System (AS) Number to itself for its DNS services.

Internet address management may be on the brink of change. The ITU (International Telecommunications Union) is studying the creation of an alternative International Internet Registry model to operate in parallel to the existing RIR model.