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Article of the Week
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The Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) is the RIR for Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia. The main focus of the RIPE NCC is the allocation of Internet number resources and the maintenance of a registry of all allocated Internet number resources in its service region. The RIPE NCC is not to be confused with RIPE, a related but independent collaborative forum.

The RIPE NCC was established on 16 September 1990 to deal with administrative tasks for RIPE, although it was not formally established and recognized until 1992. The RIPE NCC did not become a separate legal entity until 1998. Although the two organizations are legally independent today, they remain highly interdependent. The RIPE NCC supports RIPE by facilitating RIPE Meetings and providing support for RIPE Working Groups. The RIPE NCC maintains the RIPE Database, a public database containing registration details of the IP addresses and AS Numbers originally allocated to members by the RIPE NCC.

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Acronym of the Week

The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) is a formal advisory body providing important feedback and input for ICANN regarding its public policy. It provides advice to ICANN on public policy aspects of ICANN’s responsibilities with regard to the DNS.

Statements on the IANA Transition

On 1 October 2016, 18 years after the creation of ICANN, it's contract with the United States Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration expired, marking the official transition of the oversight of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority to the global multistakeholder community. Read some of the statements from some of the organizations that were so instrumental in this historical moment.

TLD of the Week
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.brussels is a geographical TLD delegated to the Root Zone in ICANN's New gTLD Program on 18 June 2014.

  • Registry Operator: DNS.be
  • Registrations: 6227
  • General Availability: 20 January 2015
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