Inquiries to Acquire IPs
Michael Smith
msmith at internap.com
Fri Jul 2 19:14:59 UTC 2010
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 at verizonbusiness.com]
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 at verizonbusiness.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Crist Clark [mailto:Crist.Clark at globalstar.com]
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
> 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?
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