I'm seeing this from multiple locations. Anyone else? I get a similar response from their web whois as well. whois -h whois.ripe.net <any IP address, RIPE or otherwise> % This is the RIPE Whois secondary server. % The objects are in RPSL format. % % Rights restricted by copyright. % See http://www.ripe.net/db/copyright.html inetnum: 0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255 netname: IANA-BLK descr: The whole IPv4 address space country: EU # Country is really world wide org: ORG-IANA1-RIPE admin-c: IANA1-RIPE tech-c: IANA1-RIPE status: ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED remarks: The country is really worldwide. remarks: This address space is assigned at various other places in remarks: the world and might therefore not be in the RIPE database. mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-lower: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-routes: RIPE-NCC-RPSL-MNT changed: bitbucket@ripe.net 20010529 changed: bitbucket@ripe.net 20020625 changed: hostmaster@ripe.net 20031014 changed: bitbucket@ripe.net 20040422 changed: bitbucket@ripe.net 20040504 source: RIPE organisation: ORG-IANA1-RIPE org-name: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority org-type: IANA address: see http://www.iana.org remarks: The IANA allocates IP addresses and AS number blocks to RIRs remarks: see http://www.iana.org/ipaddress/ip-addresses.htm remarks: and http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers e-mail: bitbucket@ripe.net admin-c: IANA1-RIPE tech-c: IANA1-RIPE mnt-ref: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT changed: bitbucket@ripe.net 20040417 source: RIPE role: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority address: see http://www.iana.org. e-mail: bitbucket@ripe.net admin-c: IANA1-RIPE tech-c: IANA1-RIPE nic-hdl: IANA1-RIPE remarks: For more information on IANA services remarks: go to IANA web site at http://www.iana.org. mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-MNT changed: bitbucket@ripe.net 20010411 source: RIPE