Nice work Ron
Masataka Ohta
mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp
Fri Jan 22 08:29:47 UTC 2021
Eric Kuhnke wrote:
> Based on my cursory knowledge of offshore corporate registrations in
> Belize, Panama and the Cayman Islands, identifying those locations which
> are only mailboxes versus actual business office addresses should not be
> overly complicated or difficult.
A problem, however, is that, these days, one can perform
real business at remote locations without actual business
offices there.
Moreover, as page 28 of:
https://www.lacnic.net/innovaportal/file/1016/3/lacnic-fasciculo-infraestructura-internet-en.pdf
says:
REQUIREMENTS FOR OBTAINING AN IP ADDRESS BLOCK AND AN ASN
The organization must be legally incorporated in the LACNIC
service region.
incorporation is enough and physical presence is *NOT* required
by LACNIC.
Though there may be other reasons, the article explains:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/01/ddos-guard-to-forfeit-internet-space-occupied-by-parler/
that are supposed to be given only to entities with a
physical presence in the region
Masataka Ohta
PS
I'm, anyway, glad that Ron now understand that "stealing" of IP
addresses through AFRINIC for money is a crime of fraud.
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