Summary

  • The 1 October 2026 table records 2,339 alerts: 39 not started, 119 under investigation and 53 confirmed as sanctions applicable to RIPE NCC services.
  • In the same quarter, RIPE NCC froze resources for five members and 23 End Users; four members were placed on hold.

RIPE NCC’s latest sanctions report gives the screening queue a number: 39 alerts had not yet entered investigation on 1 October 2026. Another 119 were already under investigation. Together, that is 158 alerts still waiting for a decision or a file of supporting documents.

The full table contains 2,339 EU and OFAC alerts. It groups 2,108 into a column that combines confirmed false positives, sanctions that do not apply to RIPE NCC services, exemptions and OFAC cases. It lists 20 on hold and 53 confirmed as sanctioned and applicable to RIPE NCC services. Those are alert statuses, not a headcount of organizations.

Three months earlier, the 2 July snapshot showed 2,172 alerts and none “not yet started.” By 1 October the total had risen by 167, including 39 new entries in the waiting column. The under-investigation count moved from 110 to 119. The cleared-or-not-applicable column grew from 2,021 to 2,108. This is an investigation ledger with a backlog, not a list of 2,339 sanctioned resource holders.

The quarterly changes table records five members and 23 End Users newly identified as subject to EU sanctions applicable to RIPE NCC’s services; their resources were frozen. Separately, four members were placed “on hold,” and one of those also held resources as an End User. The report’s categories matter: a new frozen case and an unresolved hold are different actions.

RIPE NCC freezes registration of applicable sanctioned resources in the RIPE Database, not their use. It does not deregister those resources or terminate a member’s Standard Service Agreement. A confirmed case blocks the holder from acquiring additional resources or transferring existing ones. The more immediate queue effect comes earlier: RIPE NCC says it will not process new-resource or transfer requests while a potential match remains uncleared.

That rule carries a blunt timing problem. RIPE NCC says most potential matches eventually turn out to be false positives. Yet a request waits for staff to establish that before it moves again. An address transfer can sit behind a name match that later goes nowhere; the ledger records the screening work, while the applicant carries the calendar cost.

The October report is titled Q4, but its status table is dated 1 October. Its most useful next update will show whether the 39 unstarted alerts entered investigation, how many were cleared, and whether new-resource and transfer requests resumed. The next number should come with its date and status labels. Otherwise “2,339 alerts” is a large figure doing the work of several smaller, more useful facts.

Sources