Yes but I wanted to get a feel from the community and I get a notification message from RADB to pay up I wanted to get a feel from providers. I am happy to take my question off the list :) Zaid ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Robertson" <bruce@greatbasin.net> To: "Zaid Ali" <zaid@zaidali.com> Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:19:42 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: do I need to maintain with RADB? But I pay for all that already, so it seems that using ARIN is a no-brainer. Zaid Ali wrote: It's not entirely free since you have to pay an AS maintenance fee and if you are assigned a netblock directly then you pay maintenance on that also. I would rather maintain everything in one place rather than paying an extra $495 to RADB if my BGP peers can source it from ARIN. Zaid ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Robertson" <bruce@greatbasin.net> To: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:07:31 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: do I need to maintain with RADB? Is the ARIN registry free, then? Jon Lewis wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Zaid Ali wrote: Hi, need some advise here. Do I still need to maintain my objects (and pay) RADB? I use ARIN as source and all my route objects can be verified with a whois. If your objects are all maintained via another routing registry (ARIN's, altdb, etc.) and you don't care to maintain objects with radb.ra.net, then you do not need to pay RADB maintenance fees. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________