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Your Router Trusts Its Validator. But Who's Watching the Validator?

Ritesh Mukherjee

• 9 Nov 2026

• 10 min read

ROV turned your validator into a forwarding policy source. The registries have strengthened their side of the RPKI, but the chain from repository to router runs on your infrastructure. When that chain breaks, it often breaks silently.

Do Registrars Use DNSSEC on Their Own Domains?

Tobias Sattler

• 5 Nov 2026

• 7 min read

Registrars must support DNSSEC for customers, but how many use it themselves? A study of 698 registrar domains finds fewer than one in ten has a DS record, with European registrars ahead of the rest. Tobias Sattler explores the gap and its possible explanations.

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SIDN Publishes RSSAC002 Traffic Metrics for .nl

Giovane Moura

• 27 Oct 2026

• 5 min read

SIDN Labs has released open DNS traffic data for .nl in the same format used by root server operators. In this guest post, they explain what they’re sharing and how it opens up new comparisons across the DNS.

PeeringDB Update April - September 2026

Leo Vegoda

• 23 Sep 2026

• 5 min read

The last six months has seen important improvements to PeeringDB. We've added in page maps for searches of interconnection facilities and improved the data quality for AS-SET names.

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CAPIF 5: Regional Interconnectivity in Central Asia

Anastasiya Pak

• 17 Sep 2026

• 15 min read

Central Asia’s Internet looks very different than it did back at CAPIF 1. We trace the rise of direct regional routes, stronger routing security and new connectivity options - along with the gaps that remain.

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From Cables to Content: Who Builds the Edge - and Who Connects to It

The Internet’s New Edge Builders

Arman Obosyan

• 8 Sep 2026

• 15 min read

After building private backbones, content and cloud platforms are now moving closer to users. In doing so, they are taking on delivery roles once associated mainly with independent CDNs.

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When Traceroutes Lie: How TTL Jumps Can Give Us a False Impression of the Internet’s Topology

Sebastian Kappes

• 3 Sep 2026

• 7 min read

Traceroute is a powerful tool for uncovering how packets travel across the Internet. However, as we recently discovered, some routers tamper with the TTL values in traceroute's probing packets, giving you a false view of how networks are actually interconnected.

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

Md.Kamruzzaman Khan

• 22 Jul 2026

• 18 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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Beyond Origin Validation: Four Classes of Routing Attack Nobody Is Validating

Antonio Prado

• 21 Jul 2026

• 8 min read

RPKI has made real progress against prefix hijacking. But when you map every known class of BGP attack against the defences that exist, four of them turn out to sit entirely outside cryptographic validation: handled with local filters, static thresholds and reactive response.

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ASPA Is Live. Can You See It Working?

Ritesh Mukherjee

• 29 Jun 2026

• 9 min read

ASPA objects can be registered today with ARIN and RIPE NCC. Validators support RTR v2. But if you're an operator, can you actually see what ASPA is doing - or would do - on your network? We built a tool to find out.

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