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Re: Inquiries to Acquire IPs
From: "Crist Clark" <Crist.Clark () globalstar com>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:27:44 -0700
Bingo!
From an off list response, it looks like this is someone
searching for "memorable" (note the range he inquired about with us has the repeated 220 octets in the middle) IP addresses for some project. The email we received was apparently from the same Sergey Gotsulyak of Ideco sent this to a RIPE list, http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2010/msg00038.html On 7/2/2010 at 11:46 AM, "Crist Clark" <Crist.Clark () globalstar com> wrote:
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 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 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?
Current thread:
- Re: Inquiries to Acquire IPs, (continued)
- Re: Inquiries to Acquire IPs Rob Evans (Jul 02)
- Re: Inquiries to Acquire IPs Michael Loftis (Jul 02)
- Re: Inquiries to Acquire IPs Dan White (Jul 02)
- RE: Inquiries to Acquire IPs Aaron Wendel (Jul 02)
- Re: Inquiries to Acquire IPs Matthew Palmer (Jul 02)
- Re: Inquiries to Acquire IPs Mans Nilsson (Jul 03)
- Re: Inquiries to Acquire IPs Owen DeLong (Jul 03)
- Re: Inquiries to Acquire IPs Richard A Steenbergen (Jul 03)
- RE: Inquiries to Acquire IPs Kurt Anderson (Jul 02)