[127556] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Inquiries to Acquire IPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Smith)
Fri Jul 2 15:15:32 2010
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 15:14:59 -0400
In-Reply-To: <A0313F9B4ADF48489568E2F64D72B4A101A1C8CE@ASHEVS013.mcilink.com>
From: "Michael Smith" <msmith@internap.com>
To: "Schiller,
Heather A (HeatherSkanks)" <heather.schiller@verizonbusiness.com>,
"Crist Clark" <Crist.Clark@globalstar.com>, "Nanog" <nanog@nanog.org>
X-CRXEFW-From: msmith@internap.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Feel free to share the sender's "identity" in case they happen to
actually be a paying customer of any of us on the list...
-----Original Message-----
From: Schiller, Heather A (HeatherSkanks)
[mailto:heather.schiller@verizonbusiness.com]=20
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 3:09 PM
To: Crist Clark; Nanog
Subject: RE: Inquiries to Acquire IPs
+2 so far here.. Same email, same guy, different netblocks. Spamming
for IP's to spam with?
--heather
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Heather Schiller
Network Security - Verizon Business
1.800.900.0241 security@verizonbusiness.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Crist Clark [mailto:Crist.Clark@globalstar.com]=20
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 2:47 PM
To: Nanog
Subject: Inquiries to Acquire IPs
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=20
> space:
>
> 206.220.220.0/24
>
> We would like to get this block of IP addresses for our business=20
> needs. Is it possible to assign this block for our company with PI=20
> (Provider Independent) or PA (Provider Assigned) status?
>
> We ready to pay about $5,000 for the net block itself and all related=20
> 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?
