[ARIN-consult] What do the ASN fees go to?

[John Curran]

On 10 May 2021, at 11:18 AM, Steve Noble <snoble at sonn.com<mailto:snoble at sonn.com>> wrote:

Hi John,

As someone who has diligently paid the excessively increasing fees for a single ASN, while for many years being refused services from ARIN, I am interested in understanding what my $150 goes to and how you justify such a high fee for a single item.

So far the only thing I see is an entry in a database, which for many years was incorrect due to your refusal to update my physical address. The data was last updated 9 years ago.

Steve -

As noted earlier, ARIN provides many operational services for all of the resources in the registry – and these services are provided even for number resources that have no requests pending or when there are requests pending to change information but that lack proper documentation.

The consultation that is now underway is with regard to a fee change proposal that does not change the maintenance fees for ASN’s (although it will make them go away for many end-user customers with IPv4 or IPv6 holdings due to their migration to the Registration Services Plan with ASN registry services already included :-)

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers




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