FAQs for abuse-c

The abuse email address is contained in the "abuse-mailbox:" attribute in a role object. It is this role object that is referenced by the "abuse-c:" attribute in the organisation object. That means in order to change the email address used, you need to change the relevant role object containing the

If you have delegated responsibility for handling abuse to a customer for the part of your network they use, they need a similar set-up to your own. Either you can set this up for them, if you maintain all the RIPE Database objects, or they can partly set it up themselves. However, in most cases, yo

You can find abuse contact information by querying the RIPE Database directly. The contact information will show up in the query result as a comment before the resource object. You can learn more about finding abuse contact information on the Abuse Information page.

Note: You do not need to update the "abuse-c:" attribute in order to update the email address used for your abuse contact. To change the email address, you simply need to update the role object. See this FAQ about how to do that. However, you might wish to change the "abuse-c:" attribute itself. For

The abuse email address is contained in the "abuse-mailbox:" attribute in a role object. It is this role object that is referenced by the "abuse-c:" attribute in the organisation object. This has to be done for all the organisation objects linked to the resources you manage.First make sure you have

You will need to create a ROLE object with your abuse contact email address in the "abuse-mailbox:" attribute. Now reference the ROLE object in the “abuse-c:” to the inetnum, inet6num and aut-num object. You can have an “abuse-c:” attribute on both your ORGANISATION object AND your RESOURCE obje