American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

Established in december 1997, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (arin) is a regional Internet Registry (rir) incorporated in the commonwealth of Virginia, usa. Arin, a nonprofit organization, provides services related to the technical coordination and management of Internet number resources in its respective service region. Stakeholders in the community drive policies and activities. Arin promotes the common business interests of its members by overseeing the Internet protocol (ip) address registration process so as to promote more efficient use of the Internet by its members and other interested users and thereby promote the efficiency of the business operations of each.

Ip number management - arin is tasked with the management of ip address space, autonomous system Numbers, and in-addr arpa address mapping, as well as database maintenance and verification of reassignment information. Arin also promotes the conservation of Internet protocol resources and distributes globally unique Internet addresses in a hierarchical manner, permitting the routing scalability of addresses, which is necessary to ensure proper operation of Internet routing.

Registration services includes coordination and management of ip address space and asn allocations and assignments, resource transfers, record maintenance, registration transaction information (whois), routing information (Internet routing Registry), and reverse dns. Arin allocates and assigns Internet number resources to Internet service providers and end users within its service region.