Bill, this almost qualifies as the joke of the day...
ARIN, RIPE NCC, AfriNIC, APNIC and LACNIC are the 5 regional Internet
registrars managing IP/AS allocation worldwide.
All european IPs are managed by RIPE NCC.
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Well......
Maybe your specific 'RIPE' provider is a good guy, but as for 'RIPE' as a
company, I've been so inundated with hacker attempts from IP addresses that
all belong to 'RIPE' that I finally blocked all IP Addresses from them.
I can say for me personally, 'RIPE' is a company I want nothing to do with
and I will continue to block them.