[ARIN-consult] [General-members] ARIN Customer Count and Average Revenue Trend (was: Re: Consultation on Approaches for Adjusting the ARIN Registration Services Plan Fee Schedule)

[Tyler O'Meara]

Thanks for the info John.

I'm inclined to agree with Owen; I think it's better to continue with Option A.
I have this opinion for 2 reasons:
1) The increased friction involved in raising fees encourages ARIN to continue
to search for ways to be more efficient.
2) When fees need to be increased, I think it's valuable for the community to
revisit how we dole out fees rather than just continuing with the status quo.
For example, maybe the next time we need to increase fees, rather than just
increasing the prices on the fee schedule it would be better to decrease the
amount of IPv4 addresses required for each level, to serve as encouragement to
migrate to IPv6. (Note: this is just an example, not an actual suggestion).

Tyler O'Meara
AS53727


On Fri, 2024-04-12 at 15:42 +0000, John Curran wrote:
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> > On Apr 3, 2024, at 5:58 PM, Owen DeLong via General-members
> > <general-members at arin.net> wrote:
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> > ...
> > I don’t know what the average ARIN price increase per year has been over the
> > last 20+ years, and it might be useful if ARIN were able to produce some
> > statistics on the matter.
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> > I realize this is a somewhat complex question because ARIN has repeatedly
> > rejiggered how fees are computed as well as the price per unit (including
> > changes to what constitutes a “unit” for pricing).
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> > Nonetheless, since ARIN knows every member’s billing history, it ought to be
> > possible for ARIN to do some level of historic analysis of the average price
> > per /<median> paid by all registrants and then compute the average price
> > increase per year from that.
> 
> Owen – 
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> > I did not forget about your request for additional information – but rather,
> > as you note, it is a somewhat complicated question that took a bit of effort
> > to extract properly.
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> > We were able to do this for 2002 through 2022 (the fee restructure of 2023
> > is a tad more complex and still being looked at…)  
> > 
> > So, attached is the ARIN customer count (i.e. all paying customers,
> > including RSA/LRSA and AS holders) from 2002 to 2022, and the average
> > revenue per customer in that period.
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> > I will also note that the services provided to customers over that period
> > have increased substantially (although that’s not something that’s really
> > reducible to a chartable data series, and hence not reflected below.) 
> > 
> I hope you find this information helpful! 
> /John
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> John Curran
> President and CEO
> American Registry for Internet Numbers
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> p.s.  Owen posted the query to general-members, but I am following up to both
> general-members and arin-consult as the information may be germane to the
> current open consolation regarding approaches for adjustment of fees.   Please
> continue the discussion just on the arin-consult mailing list given the
> existing open consultation taking place there - Thanks! /John
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