Skip to content
J·BJon BishopIndependent growth marketer

Internet infrastructure · Internet routing, ASN, DNS and network measurement data

RIPEstat: coverage and access

Build an IP/ASN intelligence feature that checks a customer's prefix routing state, DNS information, abuse contact and related network context before onboarding or during incident triage. SaaS founders and developer-tool teams needing machine-readable Internet infrastructure enrichment.

What it covers

Geography and granularity

Geography: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release.

Granularity: Build an IP/ASN intelligence feature that checks a customer's prefix routing state, DNS information, abuse contact and related network context before onboarding or during incident triage.

Source type: Internet routing, ASN, DNS and network measurement data

Potential use

Build an IP/ASN intelligence feature that checks a customer's prefix routing state, DNS information, abuse contact and related network context before onboarding or during incident triage. SaaS founders and developer-tool teams needing machine-readable Internet infrastructure enrichment.

Access and cost

Account or registration

Public HTTPS JSON API; no request-volume limit is stated, but regular users doing more than 1,000 requests/day are asked to register and one IP is limited to 8 concurrent requests.

Cost: Current price was not established in this review; check the provider's access terms.

Update cadence: Release cadence was not normalized in this review; check the source's dates, update notes, and API limits before comparing periods.

Interpret carefully

Limits that affect the decision

The API documentation says it is the data source for the RIPEstat UI/widgets and warns that endpoint versions should be checked through metadata; the 8-concurrent-request limit matters for production ingestion.; RIPEstat describes registration, routing, DNS and geographic information, but the routing-status documentation says observations come from RIPE RIS collectors; coverage is therefore measurement/collector dependent rather than a census of every network.; Some endpoints report current state; RIPE RIS-backed results reflect observations by the collectors, while endpoint versions and availability can change.

Release cadence was not normalized in this review; check the source's dates, update notes, and API limits before comparing periods.

This record summarizes source documentation; Jon Bishop did not conduct an independent audit of the underlying dataset.

Prefer to write? Send Jon a message.