[129443] in North American Network Operators' Group
IPv4 squatters on the move again?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tero Toikkanen)
Tue Sep 7 04:24:56 2010
From: Tero Toikkanen <Tero.Toikkanen@nebula.fi>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 08:24:05 +0000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Anyone hear of the SundownGroup?
On Thursday we received an interesting RFQ from them and suspect their inte=
ntions for requesting an IP assignment isn't exactly what they state. We ha=
ve already turned them down, but thought others might be interested in thei=
r activities as well. RIPE NCC has also been notified of this.
In brief they wanted to buy colo form us: "P4 single core @ 2 Ghz, 1 GB RAM=
, 60 GB HD, Linux CentOS 5x.x, 10 Mbps bandwidth. A single /21 or /20 net b=
lock of IP Adresses"
Their reason for requesting such a large address block was "As we are curre=
ntly launching our WholesaleVOIP operation we are in desperate need of this=
IP space as part of our ARIN process we will need these ranges SWIPd to us=
and we will in turn renumber with ARIN and return the netblocks to you as =
soon as ours are allocated and routed."
Interesting tidbits about the company we and the networking community have =
already found out:
Compare http://sundowngroup.com/ and http://www.edgecast.com/ (Edgecast has=
been notified).
The contact address is the same as National University Nevada (nu.edu):
Sundown Capital Management LLC
2850 Horizon Ridge Parkway
Henderson, Nevada 89052
United States of America
They also have virtually no Internet presence (http://www.google.com/search=
?q=3D%22Sundown+Capital+Management%22)
The first result shows them as a franchicing company with contact address i=
n California: http://www.scribd.com/doc/14385124/QFA-Unit-Final-PDF-File-of=
-32709-FDD-With-Exhibits
I'd say this case is pretty obvious...
With Kind Regards,
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Tero Toikkanen
Nebula Oy Internet Services
