RIPE Labs

This research aims at identifying the typical patterns of online hate speech and suggests starting to regulate it. Online hate speech involves online harassment, invective, threats, and repeated, often group-led abuse going beyond mere conversation disruption. … Read more

You read that right. The RIPE NCC is running out of IPv6... Luckily, we've also received our second /12 IPv6 allocation – becoming the first Regional Internet Registry (RIR) to do so! Let’s take a look back at how we’ve distributed our first /12 allocation.… Read more

How can you quickly figure out if a network you are using is dropping invalid Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) BGP announcements? You can do so by opening up a browser and visiting our RPKI test web page.… Read more

The APNIC product team has combined forces with the RIPE NCC to bring more comprehensive statistical analysis to APNIC Members and the wider Asia Pacific Internet community.… Read more

How reliable are the website popularity rankings like the Alexa top one million that many of us use in our research? We analysed four ranking lists and discovered the impact they have on research results and how easily they can be manipulated. For this reason, we created Tranco, a new improved popularity ranking list. … Read more

To prepare you for the upcoming Open Source WG discussion at RIPE 78, we are re-publishing our report from the most successful IETF Hackathon that took place in March 2019. … Read more

How can we try to support over 20,000 LIRs in 76 countries with a team of trainers? How do we ensure that our online certificates truly validate skills and expertise? In this Labs article, read about what the RIPE NCC is working on!… Read more

In light of concerns expressed at one of our meetings recently, we think this is a good time to discuss what it means to be an IP address registry in today’s environment, and some of the challenges we face as an organisation. … Read more

With RIPE 78 around the corner, we want to update you on our work to validate abuse contacts in the RIPE Database. … Read more

In recent years, there’s been a trend towards increased EU regulation with the potential to impact more actors across the Internet landscape. This is the second in an ongoing series in which we give a brief overview of the most pertinent policies currently being proposed, debated and implemented in the European Union.… Read more