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Since 2019, eight ccTLDs have gained more than 1 million registrations, while one has lost more than 28 million.

Research shows that mobile network geolocation errors are more than 10 times worse than fixed broadband, with Africa and Asia seeing failure rates of 66–72% and 53–61% respectively, compared to under 20% in Europe.

Between 2019 and 2025, Pulse recorded 916 Internet Shutdown events across 61 countries, spanning five continents.

Iran’s June 2025 Internet shutdown was not simply a national blackout: many networks remained visible in global routing data, while services inside them became unreachable from outside.

Study shows how traffic to core Internet infrastructure during the Iberian blackout dropped by up to 70%, but did not stop.

Over the last decade, PeeringDB has shown that interconnection has become important to organizations whose networks don’t sell network services, such as enterprises and governments.

A new study shows a clear 5G digital divide between non-contiguous areas and the mainland US, mainly driven by spectrum and geography.

With websites getting bigger, many web services are becoming harder to access when networks are put under stress.

Since July 2020, 136 countries have registered new data centers in PeeringDB, 21 of which are the first in their country.

A new method combines information from routers and public carbon intensity APIs to estimate network emissions at the level of individual traffic flows.

The lack of standardized censorship methods is unintentionally affecting critical sectors in Iraq, including education, business infrastructure, research platforms, and public services.

Despite massive investments by hyperscalers and CDNs into private backbone infrastructure, public Internet Exchanges (IXPs) remain a vital mechanism for traffic localization, reducing latency, and efficiently reaching local "eyeball" networks.