AS11296 -- Hijacked?

Sat Oct 2 20:41:00 UTC 2010

On Oct 2, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Robert Bonomi <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:

> That _seems_ fairly simple -- can you trace a 'continuity of ownership from
> the party that they were -originally- allocatd to to the party presently using
> them.  If yes, legiitmate, if no, hijacked.  With most States corporation
> records on-line, tracing corporate continuity is fairly straight foruard.
> As long as you recognize that a corpoation 'abadoned', 'dissolved' (or 
> similar) in one state is *NOT* the 'parent' of a same-/similarly-named 
> corporation established in another state.  And that "documents" surfacing
> 'long after' a resource-holder has 'disappeared', puporting to show a transfer
> of those resources 'at the time of disappearance', are "highly suspect", and
> really require confirmation from someone who can be -independantly- verified
> as part of the 'old' organization at the time of the transfer.

Robert -

    You are matching nearly verbatim from ARIN's actual procedures for recognizing a transfer via merger or acquisition.   The problem is compounded because often the parties appear years later, don't have access to the legal documentation of the merger, and there is no "corporate" surviving entity to contact.   Many parties abandon these transfers mid-process, leaving us to wonder whether they were exactly as claimed but simply lacking needed documentation, or whether they were optimistic attempts to hijack. 

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN