Hello Jeroen, > On 17 Nov 2025, at 14:47, Jeroen Massar via db-wg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 17 Nov 2025, at 13:48, Marco Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: >> [..] >> On 17/11/2025 12:18, Sasha Romijn wrote: >>> Hi Marco, >>> >>> Thanks for working on this proposal. >>> >>> On 17 Nov 2025, at 12:01, Marco Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Introduce a new reg-nr: attribute for RIPE NCC co-maintained organisation >>>> objects, containing verified company registration numbers issued by >>>> national authorities. >>> Will this have some kind of scope to a country/registry? If I see a number, >>> how do I know where to look it up? It might even be ambiguous without >>> scope, as the same number might be used in different company registries. I >>> don't know if all countries have a single registry. >> For countries with multiple regional company registries, such as Germany or >> the USA, we would specify which registry contains the legal entity’s record. >> For countries with a single national registry, the existing attribute with >> country code of legal registration together with the new company >> registration number attribute should be sufficient to identify the resource >> holder. > > This sounds like a good thing to have. > > Can we get that in WHOIS and then also have that as a dump for easy ingestion? > > > An example WHOIS entry on how this could look like could be a good example. >
Here is an example for the RIPE NCC itself, adding a reg-nr: attribute : organisation: ORG-RIEN1-RIPE org-name: Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) country: NL org-type: LIR descr: RIPE NCC Operations address: P.O. Box 10096 address: 1001 EB address: Amsterdam address: NETHERLANDS reg-nr: 40539632 # added registration number phone: +31205354444 fax-no: +31205354445 admin-c: MENN1-RIPE admin-c: MDIR-RIPE abuse-c: ops4-ripe mnt-ref: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-ref: RIPE-NCC-MNT mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-MNT created: 2012-03-09T13:21:52Z last-modified: 2023-12-05T13:40:03Z source: RIPE # Filtered The country: code is NL, so the registry is the KvK : Go to https://www.kvk.nl/en/search/ and enter "40539632". Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC ----- To unsubscribe from this mailing list or change your subscription options, please visit: https://mailman.ripe.net/mailman3/lists/db-wg.ripe.net/ As we have migrated to Mailman 3, you will need to create an account with the email matching your subscription before you can change your settings. More details at: https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/mailman-3-migration/
