<div dir="ltr">If it's legacy, there are no bills?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 7:54 PM Quan Zhou <<a href="mailto:quan@posteo.net">quan@posteo.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I wonder whom did the ARIN have sent bills to.<br>
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On 8/15/19 12:40 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:<br>
> As if to underscore the point I just tried to make about the fundamental<br>
> unreliability of ARIN WHOIS records, I just stumbled onto this rather<br>
> curious entity which was apparently given a sub-allocation of <a href="http://216.179.183.0/24" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">216.179.183.0/24</a><br>
> beneath the <a href="http://216.179.128.0/17" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">216.179.128.0/17</a> (Azuki, Inc.) block as of 2012-01-10:<br>
><br>
> OrgName: Rogers Communications Inc<br>
> OrgId: RC-82<br>
> Address: E 2nd St,Campbell<br>
> City: Gillette<br>
> StateProv: WY<br>
> PostalCode: 82716<br>
> Country: US<br>
> RegDate: 2012-01-10<br>
> Updated: 2012-01-10<br>
> Ref: <a href="https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/RC-82" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/RC-82</a><br>
><br>
> Other that the fact that it has an oddly similar name to one of Canada's<br>
> largest and most well-known Internet and cell phone companies, the only<br>
> other thing that's rather remarkable about it is that it was given the<br>
> <a href="http://216.179.183.0/24" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">216.179.183.0/24</a> block, by Azuki, Inc. in 2012. What's odd about that?<br>
> Well, only the fact that this *Wyoming* incarnation of Rogers Communications<br>
> had apparently already died and gone to Valhalla some 14 years earlier,<br>
> in 1998:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://wyobiz.wy.gov/Business/FilingDetails.aspx?eFNum=070023242004106130056183154143023082073130141117" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wyobiz.wy.gov/Business/FilingDetails.aspx?eFNum=070023242004106130056183154143023082073130141117</a><br>
><br>
> Moral of the story: Don't ever let anybody tell you that ghosts... even<br>
> ghosts of long dead companies... aren't real or that they do not walk<br>
> among us. Their immortal auras pervade the very ether we breath.<br>
><br>
> And they have their own IPs, apparently.<br>
><br>
> But, you know, if your customers are getting hack attacks emmanating from<br>
> <a href="http://216.179.183.0/24." rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">216.179.183.0/24.</a>.. well... to quote the old Ghostbusters tag line "Who<br>
> you gonna call?" (Hint: Don't waste your time calling the number in the<br>
> WHOIS record. It's just some bloody preschool.)<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> rfg<br>
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