ARIN's 1,644 large accounts nearly match 23,124 small in fees

ARIN's fee scale: 1,644 big accounts balance 23,124 small ones

Why it matters

The registry's September fee snapshot looks like a balance scale with a tiny pan and a crowded pan. They carry almost the same annual revenue run rate. That is a useful picture of whose holdings make ARIN's budget move.

Daniel Kade23 October 2026 at 21:32 UTCReading Time 2 minLast update: 24 October 2026

Годовой темп сборов RSP у ARIN почти поровну делят 1644 крупных и 23 124 малых счёта.

Summary

ARIN's 1 September 2026 RSP charts show 1,644 medium-and-larger accounts generating a $15.2 million annual revenue run rate, against 23,124 smaller accounts generating $14.9 million.
The larger tiers are about 6.6% of the 24,768 accounts in those charts but supply roughly half the two groups' rounded annual run rate. That concentration puts customer mix beside fee rates in ARIN's budget story.

If the ARIN 58 financial report were a balance scale, one pan would need very little room. On 1 September, ARIN counted 1,644 accounts from Medium through 5X Large with an annual RSP revenue run rate of $15.2 million. The other pan held 23,124 accounts from 3X Small through Small and $14.9 million. Nearly equal projected fee piles, with fourteen times as many account records on one side.

Add the two groups and you get 24,768 accounts, the total in ARIN's September RSP volume chart. The medium-and-larger group represents about 6.6% of the count and roughly 50.5% of the two rounded run-rate figures. ARIN's overall chart says $30.161 million for September; the grouped labels round to $30.1 million. Their small difference belongs to rounding, not a missing customer class.

The imbalance follows ARIN's 2026 fee schedule: annual Registration Services Plan charges rise across categories set by aggregate IPv4, IPv6 and ASN holdings. A Medium account is billed at $4,410 a year; a 3X Small account at $275. The schedule explains why a small slice of accounts can carry a large slice of the fee base. The September chart puts a current count on that design.

ARIN's financial report also shows $21.3 million in revenue through August and a $0.5 million operating deficit. Those are year-to-date accounting figures. The September comparison is an annualized RSP fee run rate at one point in time, and the deck offers aggregate category totals rather than individual invoices. It is still a sharp governance question: as ARIN adjusts fees and tries to balance its budget, changes among 1,644 larger-tier accounts can move one side of the scale faster than thousands of smaller ones can move the other.