ISPs Behaving Badly: GIGLINX slime was Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads

Mon Dec 1 14:24:03 UTC 2014

Ressurecting this thread: GIGLINX is still at it.

They contacted me on an email that was only ever used for registering an
ASN with ARIN.

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:14 PM, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:

> On Jul 31, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com> wrote:
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> > The usual method is to insert "ringers" which would be info which
> > points back at non-existant people with valid-looking contact
> > information.
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> > If for example they called a phone number, or several, owned by ARIN
> > (or a service they employed) asking for James T Kirk or Diana Prince
> > then that would be a problem and should be logged.
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> There are some interesting non-obvious elements in the database for
> such purposes and we do take action when they are triggered.
>
> FYI,
> /John
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> John Curran
> President and CEO
> ARIN
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