Inquiries to Acquire IPs

Fri Jul 2 19:27:44 UTC 2010

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 at 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?