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Safaricom's Profit Jump Was Ethiopia Stopping the Bleeding|The Audit Tool Was Supposed to Stop the Command. The Audit Tool Had a Bug.|One Sentence in ICANN's Bylaws Creates the Address Council. Five Registries Decide Who Sits On It.|The Record Says 382 Kilometres. The Syllabus Says Nothing.|Two Hours Fourteen Minutes: Everyone Could See the Hijack, One Company Could End It|The Licence Answers. The Switch Doesn't.|A Cable, an AS Number and No Confirmed Operator|Seat 2 Says Three Years. The News Page Says Receivership.|Cogent's world map does not name the signatory|The File Knows What Philip Smith Signed. It Cannot Say What He Ran.|MIX Names Six Platforms and Fourteen Buildings. The Matrix Between Them Is the Part It Left Out.|Hawaii's Internet Exchange Registers One Port, and It Belongs to Somebody Else
  1. AI editorial portrait of Andrei Dinu in an imagined network operations room.

    Creators

    Andrei Dinu got a 16-page AI plan. The routers still need a human.

    InterLAN IX has automated multi-router changes. Its AI assistant can inspect and plan; the write path remains a separate decision.

  2. An editorial illustration of filled file drawers and busy processing windows beside two clocks and delayed blue data ribbons.

    Story

    RIPEstat Reopened. A Tenth of RRC25 Was Still Behind.

    A 32k file-descriptor ceiling shut several RIPEstat APIs. The service recovered before the Looking Glass data caught up, leaving two clocks for one incident.

  3. An illuminated registry counter holds a newly moved stack of translucent address cards, while a dark network patch wall and an unconnected cable wait beyond it.

    Story

    APNIC Moved 8,192 IPv4 Addresses to SORACOM. The Route Stayed Dark.

    An address block can change hands in eleven seconds and still have no visible route. APNIC's record of a Japanese /19 transfer and RIPE NCC's routing observations put those two clocks side by side.

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Selected briefings, interviews, and live sessions from the BTW intelligence team, focused on internet infrastructure, governance, and market signals.

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A dim West African interconnection room with fibre patch panels and one unlit port, beside a printed registry sheet with a single blank cell.

Market / Companies

Three Databases Disagree About Ghana's Internet Exchange. Not One Is a Switch.

On 9 November 2026 the entity registered as Internet Exchange Ghana LBG appeared in our own directory as an AFRINIC member with peering-IXP status, returned nothing at all to a PeeringDB name query, and served no readable page at ixpghana.org. Three records, three answers, and not one of them tells a network engineer whether there is a switch to plug into.

Conceptual substation beside bare ground with a translucent outline of a future data hall.

Market / Trends

Core Scientific Paid $444m for a Power Gate. The Data Hall Comes Later.

The Polaris purchase put an Oklahoma substation and rights to develop against up to 440 MW of gross utility capacity inside Core Scientific. Its balance sheet assigns more value to those rights than to the land and electrical plant combined. Getting paid for a new data hall is another transaction.

A blank ruled index card stands upright on a dark wooden desk, with four thin layers of paper receding behind it into shadow under warm side light.

Governance

Four Registries Deep: Why One Card Cannot Hold the Internet Registry System

A company-classified directory entry tagged to Mauritius says it "performs registry functions for internet number resources." The standards document that defines that function describes four levels of institutions performing it in sequence, each serving the one above. The card names none of them, and the single document attached to it is about the Internet Governance Forum.

AI editorial portrait of Maria Matejka in a network engineering lab.

Market

Maria Matejka’s Router Has Three API Designs and No Shared Front Door

When BIRD users asked for a standard API, Maria Matejka found three protocol paths—and a bigger job still waiting: joining several Linux components behind one management entrance.

A conference microphone faces filled blank speaker cards beside a marked calendar.

Governance / NOGS

APRICOT’s deadline says January. The microphone may be booked by then

The conference has a last date for pitches and a much earlier race for the stage. Its own call makes the distinction impossible to miss.

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Governance

  1. The Reply Vanished. The Agent’s Spending Limit Didn’t Reset.
  2. The Platform Pays the Expert. Ofcom Holds the Veto.
  3. Canada Answered 81 Requests. The Audit Found Targets for Just 4 of 20 Equipment Types.
  4. The Standards List Had an Expiry Date. The IAB Could Send a Protocol Back.
  5. The Host Could Cancel Your Turn to Type: IBM's 5250 Telnet Interface
  6. Washington Counted the Cables It Cut. It Forgot to Check the Service.
  7. Cook Gave the Public Network Fifteen Governors. Congress Gave It None.
  8. InterLAN’s Robot Has a Rollback Timer. Its AI Has No Router Keys.
  9. The Header Stayed. The Old Host Still Dropped the Packet.
  10. ICANN Opened 32 Comment Boxes. Five Took 39% of the Mail.
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Market

  1. Dropbox sells a folder its own AI cannot read
  2. A hundred gigabits that stay in Nepal — and the missing number that would make it mean something
  3. Jan Zorz Found an IPv6 /29 Behind a Three-Word Trap
  4. Your product retired. Its GS1 number is still on the payroll
  5. GTPL has more homes to sell to. It still has to win their next purchase.
  6. Tobias Fiebig Found the 1,500-Byte Lie Inside a Virtual NIC
  7. You Bought the Trademark. The Seller Still Has Its Roots.
  8. AWS Added Servers. Every Server Got a Bigger Address Book.
  9. Md.Kamruzzaman Khan Pulled 47 Prefixes by Hand. RIPEstat Gave Them One Eight-Hour Clock.
  10. Dan Li Gave the Unknown Packet a Third Door
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  1. NxtGen's sovereign cloud, beyond the supplier badge
  2. The Proxy Shrunk the Packet. The Tunnel MTU Did Not Grow.
  3. The RPL Draft Wants Two Option Codes Already Taken
  4. Stripchat’s Corrected Estimate Fell Below 45 Million. Brussels’s 2023 DSA Call Still Stood.
  5. One List Survived. The 200 Mbps Path Stayed Valid.
  6. GitLab’s guest list has a purchasing department hidden inside it
  7. The Link Was Shared. The Sales Pitch Was Bigger.
  8. The IPv4 Pool Was Free. The Future Title Office Was Up for Grabs.
  9. At Cape Station, Fervo must now do it again
  10. Remi Hendriks put an anycast node in Lagos. Nearby routes still went to Paris.
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Number Resource Society

Reporting on address stewardship, representation, and the institutions shaping number-resource governance.

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  1. Who keeps the registry working after the rule writers leave?
  2. Thirty-nine IPv4 records, one bundle of addresses
  3. Five Registries, One Report Card: The Committee That Grades IANA
  4. Seven IPv4 blocks, three senders, one name: Homepage Universe
  5. Why ICANN's occupied Seat 9 is taking nominations again

RIR Watchdog

Five regional sessions: ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC, AFRINIC, and LACNIC.

Network Operator Group (NOGs)

Operational intelligence from the communities where routing, peering, resilience, and deployment practice are tested.

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History of the Internet

Knol Gave Authors the Red Pen. Google Kept the Lights.

A Knol author could put a name on an article, accept or reject a reader's edits, and decide whether to run ads. Google called that authorial control. It also hosted the page and determined when Knol would stop displaying it. In 2011 the company set two dates: public viewing would end after 30 April 2012, while authors could still export until 1 October. The writer kept a way to take the words away. The room where readers found them had a different keyholder.

A named writer marks a manuscript with a red pen while a separate platform operator controls the lights of its public display case.
  1. Wikipedia Made Its New Editor the Default. Editors Made It Optional Again.
  2. Google Set the Login Deadline. The Account-Migration Standard Arrived Four Days Before It.
  3. Some Internet Clocks Were Two Years Late. Then Came the Count
Open History Session

Leadership Alliance

Lumen sells fibre; its registry file still says Level 3 Parent, LLC

AS3356 carries Level 3's global backbone. ARIN records that system to Level 3 Parent, LLC — handle LPL-141, registered 10 March 2000, last updated 20 February 2018. Anyone pricing address resources off the Lumen brand is reading a document that was never about the resource layer.

A newly clad glass telecom office tower at dusk standing above a low steel records vault, one registry drawer pulled open and lit by a narrow beam of warm light.
  1. Seventy-Nine Models, Forty-Four Institutes: The Centre That Moved Its Scarcity
  2. PowerBank Has the Land for an AI Data Centre. It Still Needs a Customer.
  3. A Route Server Can Count Your Prefixes. It Cannot Consent for You.
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