Re: Cogent & FDCServers: Knowingly aiding and abetting fraud and theft?

[Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>]

Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

> If possible, it would be Good if APNIC could also make contact with the
> rightful owners of the following additional 3 Japanese blocks,

Because whois contact information is, seemingly by acquisition
and relocation, obsolete, it should be impossible for APNIC
to do so.

>      143.136.0.0/16
>      143.253.0.0/16
>      146.51.0.0/16
>
> I tried to make contact myself with the legit owners of all of the above,
> but found it to be quite difficult.  The registered owner of the first
> one appears to have gone into hiding on a remote island someplace.

From whois information:

   remarks:        reg-date:    1993-03-22

   notify:         tmiyoko () gaijin co jp
   mnt-by:         MNT-ERX-CROSFIELDELE-NON-JP
   last-modified:  2008-09-04T07:31:15Z

I guess CROSFIELDELE is Japanese branch of:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosfield_Electronics
        The firm was eventually taken over by Fujifilm Japan and named
        Fujifilm Electronic Imaging, now FFEI Ltd. following a
        management buy-out in 2008.[1]

though, according to:

        https://www.ffei.co.uk/about-ffei-design-and-manufacture-digital-inkjet/

MBO was in 2006. In the page, we can also confirm that FFEI was
crosfield until 1997.


> Making contact with the legitimate owners of the other
> two blocks, both of which belong to Japanese corporations that are still
> very much alive, was rather difficult also, because I am only a stupid
> gaijin, and don't speak a word of Japanese.

Both relocated. I send queries to the current contact points.

Maybe, blocks with stale contact information are attacked.

                                                        Masataka Ohta