Cogent & FDCServers: Knowingly aiding and abetting fraud and theft?

Fri Oct 11 11:14:00 UTC 2019

As I wrote:

>>      143.136.0.0/16
>>      143.253.0.0/16
>>      146.51.0.0/16
>>
>> I tried to make contact myself with the legit owners of all of the above,
>> but found it to be quite difficult.  The registered owner of the first
>> one appears to have gone into hiding on a remote island someplace.

> Both relocated. I send queries to the current contact points.

I get reply from technical people in a company, which has
originally assigned:

     146.51.0.0/16

they said they have never transferred the block and allow me
to post so here.

So, RADB entry:

	https://pastebin.com/raw/ZNgNuvtt
	route:      146.51.0.0/16
	origin:     AS174
	descr:      Cogent
	mnt-by:     MAINT-AS199267
	changed:    elad at netstyle.io 20190710  #17:02:13Z
	source:     RADB

is confirmed to be registration fraud.

						Masataka Ohta