Re: IPv4 squatters on the move again?

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Tero Toikkanen wrote:

> Anyone hear of the SundownGroup?
>
> On Thursday we received an interesting RFQ from them and suspect their intentions for requesting an IP assignment isn't 
> exactly what they state. We have already turned them down, but thought others might be interested in their activities as 
> well. RIPE NCC has also been notified of this.
>
> In brief they wanted to buy colo form us: "P4 single core @ 2 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 60 GB HD, Linux CentOS 5x.x, 10 Mbps bandwidth. 
> A single /21 or /20 net block of IP Adresses"
>
> Their reason for requesting such a large address block was "As we are currently launching our WholesaleVOIP operation we are 
> in desperate need of this IP space as part of our ARIN process we will need these ranges SWIPd to us and we will in turn renumber 
> with ARIN and return the netblocks to you as soon as ours are allocated and routed."
>
> Interesting tidbits about the company we and the networking community have already found out:
>
> Compare http://sundowngroup.com/ and http://www.edgecast.com/ (Edgecast has been notified).

They hit up one of our sales guys last week.  I gave it an immediate two 
thumbs down.  I think the sales guy knew the request was bogus and was 
really just showing it to me out of humor.

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