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Three /48s and Zero IPv4: The Paper Trail of a 2026 Network
GPULOL Inc. showed up in the North American registry this spring, took a 32-bit network number and a direct block of IPv6 space, and announces no IPv4 addresses at all. The records are exact about the numbers and silent about the company — and the silence is the more useful half…
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AFRINIC Rebuilt Its Political Seats. The Record Stops at the Technical One.
A dissolved board, a chief executive contract that expired in November 2022, receivership from 2023, a board election halted in June 2025 and completed three months later, interim managers with a budget and an action plan, and a chief executive named to start on 1 January 2027.…
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The Bangladesh exchange that owns a membership row and nothing else
Our record for the Bangladesh Internet Service Provider Internet Exchange Trust names a Bangladesh jurisdiction, a private-company legal form, one SMALL APNIC membership and not a single address. That gap between a national-sounding name and an empty operating surface is the…
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ARIN’s Committees Keep Minutes. The Public Gets the Board’s Receipt.
ARIN wrote a precise recordkeeping rule for its Board committees in January. It says who attends, who drafts the minutes, and how often the committees report. The named audience for those minutes is the Board. That matters when a committee can hire an auditor or set the…
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LACNIC Took Conciliation Out of Its Directors' Dispute Route
The registry changed a small clause with a large institutional meaning. A director who quarrels with LACNIC under the new commitment meets a three-arbitrator process in the contract text. The previous agreement first sent the parties to conciliation. The Board also wrote down…
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ARIN Built an Org-ID Lock. It Left the Door Open by Default.
A network can spend years building a trusted name. In ARIN's registry, another holder could attach an address record to that name without first asking its owner. ARIN built a switch to stop this. Then the existing scale of incoming records persuaded it to ship the switch in the…
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RIPE’s Spare Balancer Sent New Writes to a Read-Only Database. The Old Ones Kept Working.
An operator's first update after a failover met a closed door. An older database connection could still reach the writable primary. RIPE NCC's new postmortem explains the intermittent failure behind its October registry incident: redundancy moved the traffic, but a misconfigured…
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RIPE Froze Extra LIR Accounts. Twenty-Eight Survey Replies Pointed to Permissions.
The board shut the door on new extra accounts; a member survey showed why some operators kept walking through it. The answer is partly in the access controls, not the address pool.
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ARIN Asked an Accent to Wait for RDAP. Thirteen Years Later, the Ticket Still Waits.
In 2013, a member asked why ARIN's Customer name field could not hold an accented letter. ARIN pointed to the next generation of directory protocol. That protocol arrived, and ARIN helped build and operate it. The suggestion is still on hold, while the published write-API rules…
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APNIC Put Two Mornings on Its Noticeboard. The Status Log Has a Third.
A network operator reading APNIC's service-update index would schedule around 3 and 5 November. The status record places another Brisbane maintenance window between them, with twenty named components and a different five-minute warning. The awkward part is not an outage claim. It…
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RIPE Refiled 16,384 Addresses and an ASN at 10:23. The Routes Kept Their Number.
RIPE Refiled 16,384 Addresses and an ASN at 10:23. The Routes Kept Their Number. intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that…
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RIPE Moved an ASN and Three Blocks to Elisa. One of Its Four Routes Belongs to Someone Else.
RIPE Moved an ASN and Three Blocks to Elisa. One of Its Four Routes Belongs to Someone Else. intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
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Three ASNs Changed Registrants. Two Exact Routes Kept Their Origins.
Three ASNs Changed Registrants. Two Exact Routes Kept Their Origins. intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow.…
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RIPE Has Two Receipts for AS209601. The Names Between Them Are Missing.
RIPE Has Two Receipts for AS209601. The Names Between Them Are Missing. intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow.…
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APNIC Transferred the Whole /22. VNPL Was Already Routing Half.
APNIC Transferred the Whole /22. VNPL Was Already Routing Half. intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The…
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Krypt Had 12,288 Addresses Left in Its /17. ARIN’s Next File Moved Every One.
Three transfers had divided the old block but left two clean pieces behind. ARIN’s next cumulative file records those pieces leaving on the same day: a /20 to DODO through RIPE NCC and a /19 to GoNetSpeed inside ARIN. Five destinations now fill the whole 32,768-address map.
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Willamette Sold Half Its 1992 /16. Only the Half It Kept Was on the Map.
A university address block can be divided with a clean line in a registry and a very uneven line on the Internet. On 3 November, ARIN recorded Willamette University’s transfer of the upper half of `158.104.0.0/16` to Medicus Labs. At the next midnight UTC, RIPE NCC’s routing…
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AFRINIC Assigned One IPv6 /48. Its Ledger Grew by Eleven Lines.
A registry can make a spreadsheet look busy by cutting a single tile out of a large blank rectangle. AFRINIC’s 4 November file assigns `2001:43fc:9800::/48` to a Kenyan holder. The available `/37` that contained it becomes eleven separate available remnants. The IPv6 summary…
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RIPE Registered ITCare’s /24. The Next /24 Reached 321 Peers; This One Reached Zero.
A Polish /24 changed hands on RIPE NCC’s transfer ledger. At the next RIS snapshot, its exact route reached no full-table peer; the numerically adjacent /24 reached almost all of them. The receipt and the route were telling different stories.
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ARIN Moved an ASN and Its /24 at the Same Second. The Route Kept Its Origin.
ARIN Moved an ASN and Its /24 at the Same Second. The Route Kept Its Origin. intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…
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