[125100] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Behold - the Address-Yenta!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Thu Apr 8 19:52:19 2010
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <98D4754C-9F6F-4C12-8849-F0747C5E9136@arin.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:51:42 -1000
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
John,
In the cases I'm aware of (which were some time ago), there was (to my =
knowledge) no fraud involved.
Or are you indicating the mechanisms I described are in some way =
fraudulent?
Regards,
-drc
On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:46 PM, John Curran wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2010, at 3:51 PM, David Conrad wrote:
>> Sure they are. I personally know of several cases where addresses =
have been sold. Right now, people have to go through a bunch of foo, =
creating dummy companies to hold the IP address assets, transferring the =
assets, selling the dummy companies, etc., but the end result is the =
same.=20
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> David -=20
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> Please report these events to: =
<https://www.arin.net/resources/fraud/index.html>:
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> "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, hijacking of number resources in ARIN's database, or =
fraudulent transfers."
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> 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.
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> /John
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> John Curran
> President and CEO
> ARIN
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