[125092] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Behold - the Address-Yenta!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Thu Apr 8 18:47:15 2010
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:46:34 -0400
In-Reply-To: <F006F3E1-539F-456F-A558-C4E184795A77@virtualized.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Apr 8, 2010, at 3:51 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> Sure they are. I personally know of several cases where addresses have b=
een sold. Right now, people have to go through a bunch of foo, creating du=
mmy companies to hold the IP address assets, transferring the assets, selli=
ng the dummy companies, etc., but the end result is the same.=20
David -=20
Please report these events to: <https://www.arin.net/resources/fraud/index.=
html>:
"This reporting process is to be used to notify ARIN of suspected Internet =
number resource abuse including the submission of falsified utilization or =
organization information, unauthorized changes to data in ARIN's WHOIS, hij=
acking of number resources in ARIN's database, or fraudulent transfers."
We do investigate, and if we can determine falsified information was used=20
to effect a transfer, we will revert the transfer and/or initiate resource=
=20
review as appropriate.
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
