FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

Tue Jan 7 09:38:28 UTC 2020

I have two separate entries for sets of phone numbers/email addresses,
associated with my name, that must be in Cogent's CRM system as cold leads.

About every six months I am contacted by a new person whom I've never heard
of before. My theory is that each newbie Cogent sales rep has been assigned
a bunch of random cold leads to call and attempt to sell.

The most recent tactic is to request 1 or 10Gb IP transit at impossible to
service sites, such as AT&T Long Lines towers on top of 1000 meter high
mountains, in Deadhorse Alaska, or the CLLI codes for the COs of tiny
coastal villages on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Invariably I never hear anything back from that person again.

The cycle repeats again six months later.

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 1:12 AM Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera at gmail.com> wrote:

> Peace,
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 7:17 PM David Hubbard
> <dhubbard at dino.hostasaurus.com> wrote:
> > When they spam me I typically just ask if they have
> > IPv6 to Google and never hear back…
>
> Same here.  Each time they reach out to me I quickly send them to
> investigate if they are able to lift the stupid 100th percentile
> requirement Cogent imposes on us or not yet.  Total Cogent sales rep
> hours wasted with me: a few hundred I believe.
>
> Gonna think about automating this, but am a bit concerned about the
> climate impact.
>
> --
> Töma
>
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