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RE: spammers trying to "lease" IP space?
From: "Dan Golding" <dgolding () ragingwire com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:29:17 -0700
I think this highlights a very important aspect of the paid IP address transfer process - whomever is buying had better perform some due diligence on the block. These sorts of rent-a-block-for-SPAM activities are extremely common. Most of the time, they aren't quite this blatant. - Dan
-----Original Message----- From: John Curran [mailto:jcurran () arin net] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:05 AM To: Michael Holstein Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: spammers trying to "lease" IP space? Michael - We're aware of several parties out there soliciting to 'lease' your address space, and it appears that most of them are bulk email operations. Given that the nearly inevitable consequence is that the blocks in question end up on various anti-spam blacklists, I imagine that anyone would have to think very carefully about pursuing that option... If you truly have more address space than you need, you can always return it :-), list it as available on ARIN's specified transfer listing service (note - this may result in potential recipients calling you) or working with a facilitator to make it available. More info on all
of
these options: https://www.arin.net/resources/transfers/index.html and: https://www.arin.net/resources/transfer_listing/listers.html FYI, /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN On Mar 21, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Michael Holstein wrote:I know this tactic isn't exactly new .. just thought I'd pass thisalong.Text below is exact with exception of our ARIN information and
ranges
(which any of you could figure out anyway). Cheers, Michael Holstein Cleveland State University --snip-- Description: ABC Widgets *Greetings, NOC or IP Admin at (our ARIN NetName)* ** We would like to Lease or even Purchase some of your IPv4 Ranges
like
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diversity
in theallocated IP space as possible, however the most important thing isthe Subnetsneed to have no abuse history. We can take the IPs via GRE or BGP or other such tunneling solutionto where youhave them announced. Alternatively we can advertise them ourselves
on
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Current thread:
- spammers trying to "lease" IP space? Michael Holstein (Mar 21)
- Re: spammers trying to "lease" IP space? Raymond Dijkxhoorn (Mar 21)
- Re: spammers trying to "lease" IP space? John Curran (Mar 21)
- RE: spammers trying to "lease" IP space? Dan Golding (Mar 21)