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Merit RADb - The World's Largest Public Routing Registry
Register Your Routing Assets & Diagnose the Health of Your Network Assets
Merit RADb (radb.net) is a public registry of network routing information that assists with the transfer of data over the Internet. Merit RADb provides organizations with tools to register their network routing assets, track routing changes, and determine the health of network assets.Thousands of organizations that operate networks have registered their routing policies in Merit RADb to facilitate the operation of the Internet, including Internet service providers, universities, and business enterprises.
- More than 1,800 organizations, from small companies to Fortune 500 corporations, have registered their routing information in Merit RADb, with new organizations registering every day.
- Merit RADb's WHOIS servers receive over 6M queries per day from over 300K unique hosts.
- Merit RADb members have registered over 400,000 route objects in the routing database.
- Merit RADb has remained at the forefront of Internet routing practices and includes over 1,100 IPv6 route objects.
Register today at www.radb.net
Innovative Features
Recently upgraded with powerful management and diagnostic tools, Merit RADb's user portal provides various consistency checks to ensure registered routing objects are correct and alerts members to Internet routing changes that might affect the visibility and reachability of their networks.As the only routing registry to offer 24x7 customer support, Merit RADb now alerts members to the health of their network assets as observed by various external sources on the Internet. Merit RADb maintains active data mirrors of more than 30 other Internet Routing Registry (IRR) databases.
Object Management
- A streamlined object management framework based on the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) standard provides a summary of registered routing objects, including as-set, aut-num, filter-set, inet-rtr, mntner, peering-set, role, route, route-set, route6, and rtr-set.
- Enables updating of registered objects through online interface.
- Support for RPKI (Resource Public Key Infrastructure) is provided via an additional URI (Universal Resource Indicator) attribute that can be added to your route object.
- Provides several consistency checks to ensure your registered routing objects are correct and alerts members to Internet routing changes.
- Allows you to easily review your relevant Regional Internet Registry (RIR) allocation information for accuracy.
- Provides Merit RADb members with a view of their network assets from an outside perspective.
- Prefix alerts are generated when observed routing events in live BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) sessions conflict with information registered in Merit RADb, or differ from historically learned route origination information. This routing anomaly detection can quickly alert you to possible route hijack events.
- Host reputation and information about possible malicious activities such as SPAM or Botnet behavior originating from your network are gathered from a wide variety of partners such as Spamhaus, SpamCop, Shadowserver and others. Merit RADb provides the ability to easily correlate these various diverse sources of reputation information in a unified format to provide a greater level of confidence in any reported malicious activity.
- Merit RADb portal offers convenient account maintenance and a detailed service history.
- Provides customized queries for network objects.
It's Easy to Join Merit RADb
Any organization worldwide with an autonomous system number (ASN) may register in Merit RADb for an annual fee of $495 (U.S. Dollars). Non-profit organizations may register annually for $395. Your account is conveniently pre-populated with a basic set of consistent information as a starting point.Register online at www.radb.net
Merit RADb Brochure
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Assisting Internet Routing Since 1995
When the process of transitioning the NSFNET to the commercial Internet began in 1993, the National Science Foundation selected Merit Network and a partner organization to act as Routing Arbiters.
In 1995, the Routing Arbiter Database went into production. The Routing Arbiter team deployed Route Servers at all Network Access Points for the Internet.
After its deployment, hundreds of organizations that operate networks—including ISPs, universities, and business enterprises—began to publicly publish, or register, their routing policies and route announcements in the RADb to facilitate the operation of the Internet.
Today, more than 1,800 organizations have registered their routing information in Merit RADb, with new organizations registering every day.