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# Abuse Contact DB Overview

## **Overview**

The Abuse Contact Database (DB) is a database service for people who want to report network abuse directly to network owners.

The service allows you to look up the abuse@ role address for the [IP](https://abusix.com/glossary/internet-protocol-address/) address from which you saw the abusive content or behavior originate without getting lost in multiple [RIR](https://abusix.com/glossary/regional-internet-registry/) [WHOIS](https://abusix.com/glossary/whois/) databases, rate-limited by [WHOIS](https://abusix.com/glossary/whois/) servers, or emailing to broken email addresses.

## **Where do the abuse@ role addresses come from?**

We query the information stored in the [RIR](https://abusix.com/glossary/regional-internet-registry/) ([ARIN](https://abusix.com/glossary/american-registry-for-internet-numbers/), [RIPE](https://abusix.com/glossary/reseaux-ip-europeens/), [APNIC](https://abusix.com/glossary/asia-pacific-network-information-centre/), and [AFRINIC](https://abusix.com/glossary/african-network-information-centre/)) [WHOIS](https://abusix.com/glossary/whois/) records for each [IP](https://abusix.com/glossary/internet-protocol-address/) address. We use only the largest allocated ranges.

We Validate abuse@ role addresses and return the declared abuse@ role address where possible. As a fail-over, the technical@ role address in the [RIR](https://abusix.com/glossary/regional-internet-registry/) record may be returned.

> ❗Note [LACNIC](https://abusix.com/glossary/latin-america-and-caribbean-network-information-centre/) is the only [RIR](https://abusix.com/glossary/regional-internet-registry/) that does not provide abuse address data, so for [LACNIC](https://abusix.com/glossary/latin-america-and-caribbean-network-information-centre/) ranges, the abuse contact [abuse@lacnic.net](mailto:abuse@lacnic.net) is returned for all queries since we cannot provide more specific data due to their restriction.

## **How much does this service cost?**

The **Abuse Contact DB service is free!**

If you use the information in the Abuse Contact DB for reporting, we only want you to place the following small reference into every single report message you send, indicating you used the Abuse Contact DB to find the recipient’s abuse contact address:

> Abusix is neither responsible nor liable for the content or accuracy of the abuse being reported in this message. The Abusix Abuse Contact DB provided only the abuse contact for the originating network for this report. This free abuse@ address, proxy DB service, is built on top of the [RIR](https://abusix.com/glossary/regional-internet-registry/) databases. Therefore, if you wish to change or report a non-working abuse contact address, please contact the parent [ASN](https://abusix.com/glossary/autonomous-system-number/) operator or the appropriate [RIR](https://abusix.com/glossary/regional-internet-registry/) responsible for managing the underlying [IP](https://abusix.com/glossary/internet-protocol-address/) address on the abuse contact map. If you have questions about the DB, please visit [https://abusix.com/contactdb/](https://abusix.com/contactdb/) or email [support@abusix.com](mailto:support@abusix.com)

## **Support Reporting**

If you believe there is a problem with the data or something is going wrong, please let us know so we can update it promptly.