ARIN whois contact abuse from ipv4depot aka Silicon Desert International Inc

Thu Oct 12 16:01:20 UTC 2023

Tom,

When an ARIN member violates their agreement and spams from ARIN’s databases, it’s not just an “Internet is fertile ground” deal. It’s a betrayal of a legal trust, one that demands accountability. I’m quite happy that ARIN promptly responds to these abuses, and gets results. That only works if victims report spam and compare notes. Let the “fertile ground” be elsewhere!

 -mel beckman

On Oct 12, 2023, at 8:49 AM, Tom Beecher <beecher at beecher.cc> wrote:

It's ridiculous that they resort to scraping public lists and DBs to try and achieve what they're attempting to do.

Everyone is always looking for information they can use to advance some agenda or purpose. The internet is fertile ground for that. Always has been, always will be.

Not taking shots at anyone here, but I am boggled why this is a common public complaint. Block the sender and move on.

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 7:56 PM Peter Potvin via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org<mailto:nanog at nanog.org>> wrote:
Definitely have received this same spam multiple times and so have a few others I know. It's ridiculous that they resort to scraping public lists and DBs to try and achieve what they're attempting to do.

Regards,
Peter Potvin | Executive Director
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Accuris Technologies Ltd.

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 7:52 PM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com<mailto:eric.kuhnke at gmail.com>> wrote:
Is anyone else receiving spam from this organization? Based on the contents of the cold solicitations they are sending us, and the addresses being sent to, they have scraped ARIN WHOIS data for noc and abuse POC contact info and recent ipv4 block transfers.

It's trivially easy to block their entire domain at the mail server level, of course...

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