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Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois
From: Tom Hill <tom () ninjabadger net>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 17:05:03 +0000
On 08/01/2020 13:53, Joe Provo wrote:
This is a disproportionate response IMHO. $0.02 YMMV,And mine certainly does. Well over a decade of documented misbehavior with requests for them to cease certainly makes this an appropriate response. I will always applaud an organization enforcing its anti-abuse policies. Similarly, Cogent has been banned from peeringdb multiple times for the exact same behavior. Repeated warnings had no impact and without the bans, the behavior was not adjusted.
Quite. The root cause isn't even the /fault/ of the individual sales personnel, whom may or may not be inconvenienced by ARIN's actions. Their management (and likely, *their* directors/VPs) need to see what their sanctioned behaviour, and/or demands placed upon their employees in those sales functions, does to the company's reputation in the industry, and ultimately their bottom line. ARIN has tried the carrot, and this is the stick. One of the thinnest sticks that they could have used, I'd add. Will Cogent stop pestering the community with illicitly harvested contact information? Will they switch to more nefarious tactics? Who knows... Everyone likes having money, after-all. -- Tom
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- RE: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois, (continued)
- RE: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois James Breeden (Jan 07)
- RE: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Aaron Gould (Jan 08)
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- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Owen DeLong (Jan 27)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Dovid Bender (Jan 27)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Justin Wilson (Jan 27)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Darin Steffl (Jan 27)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Ross Tajvar (Jan 27)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Jared Mauch (Jan 07)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Joe Provo (Jan 08)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Tom Hill (Jan 09)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Rubens Kuhl (Jan 09)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Tom Hill (Jan 10)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Rubens Kuhl (Jan 10)
- Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois Heather Schiller via NANOG (Jan 27)