[127552] in North American Network Operators' Group
Inquiries to Acquire IPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Crist Clark)
Fri Jul 2 14:47:28 2010
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:46:43 -0700
From: "Crist Clark" <Crist.Clark@globalstar.com>
To: "Nanog" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We got a strange and out of the blue inquiry from someone
wishing to pay us for a chunk of our ARIN allocation,
> Hello,
>
> According to Whois data, you company owns the following
> IP address space:
>
> 206.220.220.0/24
>
> We would like to get this block of IP addresses for our business
> needs. Is it possible to assign this block for our company with=20
> PI (Provider Independent) or PA (Provider Assigned) status?
>
> We ready to pay about $5,000 for the net block itself
> and all related procedures.
>
> Would you be interested in such an offer? The amount of compensation=20
> is subject to negotiation.
We're not interested, mostly because we use our allocation,
but also because I think this is not allowed by our agreement
with ARIN. Seems a bit fishy.
I should add the sender identified himself and his company
clearly. It wasn't from some free mail account. (Although it
could of course be spoofed.)
Is this a new thing? IP speculation as we come upon free pool
depletion? A front for spammers?
