🔎 Unmasking the Network: Hunting IP Ranges with Python and RIPE

The RIPE Network Coordination Centre (NCC) maintains one of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), providing critical data on how IP addresses are allocated in Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia. Querying this data—specifically the inetnum (IPv4) and inet6num (IPv6) records—can reveal who owns a block of IP addresses, for what purpose, and when it was registered.