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DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure - Beyond Definitions and Blocklists

DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure: Beyond Definitions and Blocklists

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Andrew Campling

8 min read

Evidence suggests that criminals may control a substantial share of new gTLD registrations. Although the precise scale remains contested, the article asks whether current DNS Abuse measures adequately address wider misuse of domain names.

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Multiple LIR Accounts: Looking Back and Thinking Ahead

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Marco Schmidt

13 min read

Why a feature introduced for a handful of members became one of the RIPE NCC's most complex operational challenges.

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Bangladesh outage

Inside a Shutdown: BGP Evidence from an Operator Who Was There

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Md.Kamruzzaman Khan

17 min read

When Bangladesh vanished from the global routing table in July 2024, public routing data captured the event as it unfolded. Drawing on first-hand observations from inside one affected network, this article explores what that data can and cannot tell us.

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Many Sovereignties, One Internet

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Hisham Ibrahim

10 min read

Digital sovereignty is not simply good or bad. The commons test offers a practical framework for assessing whether different strategies expand choice, preserve interoperability, strengthen resilience and support meaningful participation, or create new dependencies and chokepoints.

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RIPE NCC Days Baltics: Insights into Regional Resilience

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Kjerstin Burdiek

14 min read

On 3-4 June 2026, we convened in Riga, Latvia for RIPE NCC Days Baltics. 76 participants from nine countries participated in sessions covering important topics in network operations, with a special focus on resilience for a region that has seen repeated network disruptions in recent years.

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digital sovereignty

Sustaining the Commons in an Age of Digital Sovereignty

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Hisham Ibrahim

12 min read

Digital sovereignty raises legitimate questions about dependency, resilience and control. It can strengthen the Internet when it builds capacity and meaningful choice. It becomes risky when it is pursued as control over the common layer that keeps the global Internet interoperable.

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legacy II

Legacy Out of Contract

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Qasim Lone

19 min read

Last time, we looked at legacy address space in terms of contract coverage, ROA coverage, and proportion of announced prefixes. Now it’s time to take a closer look at those blocks still to be brought under contract and get a clearer picture of what kind of behaviour we see coming from them.

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The Internet’s Trust Architecture

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Hisham Ibrahim

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The Internet’s core, rooted in open standards and unique identifiers, has always depended on trust. That trust is part of what makes coordination possible across distributed actors, shared systems, and diverse institutions. Looking at the Internet in these terms may help explain why similar technic…

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Ukraine as a Laboratory of Internet Resilience

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Eliza Rohotska

15 min read

Ukraine’s Internet has not collapsed under invasion - it has adapted. This article examines what that reveals about the concept of resilience in the context of Internet infrastructure and the people who keep the networks running.

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2025

Looking Back at 2025: What the Numbers Say About Engagement, Skills, and Coordination

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Alena Muravska

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At the RIPE NCC, engagement happens in many different formats - RIPE Meetings, regional events, Open Houses, training courses, RIPE Labs, and more. But the questions behind all this activity are consistent: who are we reaching, how accessible is participation, and are people able to stay involved o…

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