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The RIR RIPE NCC has published its Internet country report series about Central Asia, Southeast Europe, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Germany. The most recently published report in the RIR’s series looks at eight Gulf nations’ internet landscape, with a focus on the landscape in Iraq and Yemen. It gives an outlook about the infrastructure, market development, internet routing in the Middle East, and the available IP resources in Gulf nations. Read on to know more about what is in the report. Growth In LIRs The RIR’s report demonstrates that the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq have shown considerable growth in setting up local networks over the last decade. It suggests that Iraq surpassed the GCC nations with the maximum LIRs. Conversely, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, and Oman have had less growth in comparison, with some reducing their Local Internet Registry count. The private network (ASN) count in a nation signifies market maturity as well. Those networks increase resilience...

Malicious players are misusing the secondary marketplace for Internet Protocol version 4 addresses, as per Lancaster University’s Vasileios Giotsas, Norway SimulaMet’s Ioana Livadariu, and University College London’s Petros Gigis. In an online paper, they explained how the depletion of IPv4 addresses saw RIRs establishing transfer marketplaces for the addresses that were becoming more and more difficult to find. Anyhow, they said that the IPv4 marketplace has been badly regulated due to the following factors. We lack widely adopted mechanisms of authenticating the ownership of IP prefixes Inconsistent contract-related requirements between allocated and legacy address space Policy incongruities among RIRs Consequently, malefactors who attempt to get around legal IP address ownership processes have started targeting IPv4 address transfers for misuse and fraud. Those who misuse the process perform things such as utilizing ‘clean’ Internet Protocol addresses through which they...