Spam due to new ARIN allocation

Thu Sep 5 21:54:58 UTC 2019

Oddly enough, I created a Z Org for legacy resources and got hit up on linked-in by IPv4 brokers as well as some spam from Cogent. 

Annoying. 

> On Aug 4, 2019, at 09:29, Tim Burke <tb at tburke.us> wrote:
> 
> Done, Sir. Thanks.
> 
> Tim Burke
> tim at burke.us
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 3, 2019, at 10:42 PM, John Curran wrote:
>> Tim -  
>> 
>> When you have moment, could you forward both of those Whois spam messages to compliance at arin.net ?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> /John
>> 
>> John Curran
>> President and CEO
>> American Registry for Internet Numbers]
>> 
>> 
>>> On 2 Aug 2019, at 7:32 PM, Tim Burke <tb at tburke.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>> We recently received a new ASN from ARIN - you know what that means... the sales vultures come out to play!
>>> 
>>> So far, it has resulted in spam from Cogent (which is, of course, to be expected), and now another company called "CapCon Networks" - http://www.capconnetworks.com. As far as I am aware, this practice is against ARIN's Terms of Use. Is it worth reporting to ARIN, or perhaps it's worth creating a List of People To Never Do Business With™, complete with these jokers, and other vultures that engage in similar tactics? 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Tim Burke
>>> tim at burke.us
> 
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