fee schedules FYI
- ARIN 2026 PDF: https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/images/2026feeschedule.p...
- RIPE 2026 : https://www.ripe.net/membership/payment/
Enthusiasts, trainees and small orgs are paying a lot more with RIPE.
Your ARIN link is broken.
It's basically $275/year to have an AS and some PA assignment with no intermediary LIR. In Europe, you have to pay €1800/year without an ASN included. Each resource is billed separately. If you go with a middleman (another LIR) you usually have to pay 200€+ (with taxes) for 2 resources (ASN and PI space)
No such thing. PA by definition is a slice of your LIR's address block.
Outside of that, I have another couple of VPSes I use for experimenting with routing and fail over that are closer to my location. The VPSes are connected to my home network and each other over Wireguard.
€75 per assignment / sponsored resource €50 per ASN assignment
So in your case it's only €50 for the AS-object but your LIR needs to allocate their LIR base fee costs (which includes the IPv6 PA that they assigned to you), also infrastructure, the VM, support.
I really like the couple of LIRs that are very active in supporting one-person-multihoming setups, but IMHO RIPE should directly do that at a low entry fee. RIPE has also education/training offerings for LIRs and that would increase the knowhow and reach of RIPE. Most home lab enthusiasts will apply the gained knowledge in their job, at customers and bring new customers to RIPE.
When I first made the ARIN or RIPE LIR decision a few years back, ARIN required a $500 registration fee for an ASN. That was a few years of LIR fees right there. I felt it was worth the risk for the savings with a hobbyist setup.
A PA block is just part of a LIR's block that they give you permission to use, so I doubt you could keep that if they went out of business, but maybe RIPE has a procedure for it.