Inquiries to Acquire IPs

Fri Jul 2 19:22:53 UTC 2010

On 07/02/2010 01:46 PM, Crist Clark 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?

Yeah, we received the same kind of offer here.  Here's the message in full:

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Hello,

According to Whois data, you company owns the following
IP address space:

146.6.6.0/24

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.

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Kind regards,
Sergey Gotsulyak

Ideco Sales Team
280 Madison Ave, Suite 912
New York, NY 10016

Phone: (800) 715-3502
Email: goz at idecogateway.com
Web: www.idecogateway.com
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Oscar