Subnet ownership confirmation is proof that you are the legitimate owner of the IP addresses and that the subnet has been issued to you. The confirmation of the subnet is mandatory.

Follow the guides below to learn how to validate subnet ownership for subnets from every Regional Internet Registry:

How to receive the ownership confirmation email for AFRINIC subnets

To receive a subnet confirmation ownership email for AFRINIC subnets, you must set the abuse-mailbox contact for either admin-c or tech-c role (as maintainer, mnt-by). Before you add the abuse-mailbox contact to your maintainer, check if your subnet status is acceptable at IPXO. 

What are acceptable ARFRINIC subnets? 

Use the Adding Subnets to IPXO From AFRINIC guide to learn which subnet statuses are accepted in the IPXO Marketplace. The information can help you avoid problems when moving your subnet to the IPXO Marketplace in the future. 

How to find your maintainer admin-c or tech-c in AFRINIC

The subnet ownership confirmation email for AFRINIC subnets is sent to your admin-c or tech-c abuse-mailbox contact when the subnet is added to the IPXO Marketplace.  

To demonstrate, we search IPXO-MNT (our maintainer) using AFRINIC's Whois Search query tool.

IPXO-MNT entered in the AFRINIC search query tool.
IPXO-MNT in AFRINIC search query

In this example, the admin-c attribute has the abuse-mailbox contact associated with it. 

Admin-c, nic-hdl and abuse-mailbox fields highlighted in AFRINIC search.
Admin-c, nic-hdl and abuse-mailbox fields in AFRINIC search results

Note: You must set abuse-mailbox to at least one of the maintainers (admin-c or tech-c). 

How to add/update the abuse-mailbox for your admin-c or tech-c in AFRINIC 

Use this easy-to-follow guide to learn How to Add/Update the abuse-mailbox for Your admin-c or tech-c attributes in AFRINIC.

Abuse-mailbox field highlighted in AFRINIC search results.
Abuse-mailbox field in AFRINIC search results

Once you add the abuse-mailbox attribute, you will be able to receive the subnet ownership confirmation email. The image below shows an example of the subnet ownership confirmation email.

Subnet Ownership Confirmation email

How to receive the ownership confirmation email for APNIC subnets

To receive a subnet ownership confirmation email for APNIC subnets, you must add the organization’s attribute (ORG) to the subnet’s inetnum.

Note: The subnet ownership confirmation email for APNIC subnets is sent to your org (organization attribute) email contact. 

What are acceptable APNIC subnets? 

Before you add the ORG, check if your subnet status is acceptable at IPXO. This guide informs which inetnum statuses are accepted in the IPXO Marketplace.

How to find your organization's attribute ID

Step 1: Access APNIC's Resource Manager menu

Log in to your MyAPNIC account and click Go to Resource Manager.

Go to Resource Manager menu button highlighted in MyAPNIC welcome page.
How to access the Resource Manager menu in APNIC

Step 2: Access APNIC's Whois Updates menu

Click Whois Updates in the Quick Links menu or go to Resources -> Whois Updates

Whois Updates button in APNIC's Resource Manager menu.
How to access the Whois Updates menu in APNIC

Step 3: Find the Object

Click the View tab, expand the Object type drop-down menu and select organisation

To demonstrate, we use ORG-IL49-AP. 

View tab, Object type and Object name highlighted in APNIC's Whois Updates.
Whois Updates information

To check how the Organization is represented via Whois and where the ownership email will be sent, click the Object name or type it into the APNIC Whois Search engine.

In our example, the ownership email will be sent to [email protected]

Organization name code in APNIC's Whois Search engine.
Organization name in APNIC's Whois Search engine

If everything's set up correctly, you will receive your subnet ownership confirmation email successfully. The image below shows an example of the subnet ownership confirmation email. 

Subnet Ownership Confirmation email

How to receive the subnet ownership confirmation email for ARIN subnets

To receive a subnet confirmation ownership email for ARIN subnets, you must add the organization’s abuse POC to the subnet's inetnum. Before you add the POC, make sure that your subnet status is acceptable at IPXO.

What are acceptable ARIN subnets

Use this helpful guide to learn how to add subnets allocated by ARIN to IPXO. This guide informs which subnet nettypes are accepted in the IPXO Marketplace. It can also help you avoid problems when moving your subnet to the IPXO Marketplace in the future.

How to add the POC to ARIN subnet inetnum

Use this easy-to-follow guide to learn how to add your organization’s point of contact (POC) in ARIN. Once you add the POC, you will be able to receive the subnet ownership confirmation email.

Note: You must add an abuse POC for your organization to validate the ownership of your resources.

How to find the abuse POC (point of contact) in ARIN

The subnet ownership confirmation email for ARIN subnets is sent to your org (organization object) abuse contact.

To demonstrate, we use the subnet 45.56.199.0/24.

Step 1: Access the Organization Identifiers (Org IDs) menu

Log in to your ARIN Account Manager and click Dashboard on the left. In the Account Snapshot menu, click Organization Identifiers (Org IDs).

Account Snapshot menu in ARIN's Dashboard.
ARIN's Dashboard

Step 2: Select Org Handle

In the Organization Identifiers menu, move to the Org Handle list and select the desired handle (e.g., IL-845).

Org Handle in ARIN's Organization Identifiers menu.
Org Handle in ARIN's Organization Identifiers menu

Step 3: Select Net Handle

In the IP Networks menu, move to the Net Handle list and select the desired handle (e.g., NET-45-56-199-0-1).

Net Handle highlighted in ARIN's Dashboard.
Net Handle in ARIN's Dashboard

Step 4: Find the POC

In the Organizations Points of Contact menu, scroll down to the Abuse POC section. Click the arrow on the left to expand the information. You can find your POC email in the Email section.

Abuse POC information highlighted in ARIN's Organization Points of Contact menu.
Abuse POC information

The image below shows an example of the subnet ownership confirmation email.

Subnet Ownership Confirmation email

How to receive the ownership confirmation email for LACNIC subnets

To receive the subnet ownership email from LACNIC, you must set your organization’s Administrator user email, and your subnet's status must be acceptable at the IPXO Marketplace.

What are acceptable LACNIC subnets? 

Use the Adding Subnets to IPXO From LACNIC guide to learn which subnet statuses are accepted in the IPXO Marketplace.

How to find the current organization’s Administrator user/email

Go to MiLacnic, log in, open your organization's profile and check the information. 

In our example, the organization's (CL-DETC-LACNIC) Administrator user is VIG28 with the email address [email protected].

Note: You can find more information in the How To Set Your Organization’s Contact in LACNIC guide.

Org ID and email address highlighted in LACNIC's portal.
Organization's Administrator email address

How to receive the ownership email

The LACNIC ownership email is sent to your ORG (organization object) owner-c contact. You can use LACNIC's Whois Search service to find this information.

In our example, the organization's (CL-DETC-LACNIC) owner-c is VIG28 with the email address [email protected]

Ownerid, owner-c and e-mail attributes highlighted in LACNIC Whois.
LACNIC Whois information

Once you add the owner-c contact, you will be able to receive the subnet ownership confirmation email. The image below shows an example of the subnet ownership confirmation email.

Subnet Ownership Confirmation email

How to receive the subnet ownership confirmation email for RIPE subnets

To get the subnet ownership email from RIPE, you need to add an Organization Object (org) to the subnet inetnum. Before you start following steps to add an org attribute, make sure that your subnet status is acceptable at IPXO.

What are acceptable RIPE subnets?

Use this helpful guide to learn how to add subnets allocated by RIPE to IPXO. This guide informs which RIPE subnet statuses are accepted in the IPXO Marketplace. This information can help you avoid problems when moving your subnet to the IPXO Marketplace in the future.

How to add the org attribute to RIPE subnet inetnum

Use this easy-to-follow guide to learn how to add org in RIPE. Once you create the org attribute, you will be able to receive the subnet ownership confirmation email.

How to find the abuse POC (point of contact) in RIPE

The subnet ownership confirmation email for RIPE subnets is sent to your org (organization object) abuse contact when the subnet is added to the IPXO Marketplace. Use the images below to find your POC.

To demonstrate, we use the subnet 45.154.4.0/23.

Org code

Org attribute in RIPE Database search results.
Org attribute in RIPE Database search results

Note: The value of the org attribute must show your organization’s code.

Abuse-c code

Abuse-c field in RIPE Database Lookup results.
Abuse-c field in RIPE Database Lookup results

Abuse-mailbox with your abuse POC email address

Abuse-mailbox field in RIPE Database Lookup results.
Abuse-mailbox field in RIPE Database Lookup results

The image below shows an example of the subnet ownership confirmation email.

Subnet Ownership Confirmation email

What to do if you do not receive the ownership email?

If you have taken all of the steps described in the article, but you have not received your subnet ownership confirmation email anyway, you can always resend it.

Note: If your subnet has just been freshly acquired from RIPE, you may not receive an email. In such cases, you will have to wait 24 hours from the date specified in the Date created field of the RIPE WHOIS.

How to resend a subnet ownership confirmation email

If you want to resend the subnet ownership confirmation email, you can follow these steps.

Step 1: Access the My Monetized IPs menu

Log in to your IPXO Portal account. In the menu at the top, click Monetize and then click My Monetized IPs.

How to access My Monetized IPs in the IPXO Portal

Step 2: Select subnet with the authorization pending status

In the My Monetized IPs menu, click the Subnets tab. Click the subnet that has the Authorization pending status on the right.

Authorization pending status of a subnet

Step 3: Resend the email

You will receive a pop-up asking you to verify ownership, you can click the "Resend Confirmation" button to re-send the email.

How to resend subnet ownership confirmation email

If you have any questions, feel free to contact our Customer Support team via help.ipxo.com.