Re: ARIN whois contact abuse from ipv4depot aka Silicon Desert International Inc

[Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>]

To clarify, the original post from myself is more ARIN related and scraping
of ARIN data. The incoming cold contacts from the ipv4-broker-spammer came
to ARIN POCs for an ASN with presence only in the USA.



On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 8:23 AM tim () pelican org <tim () pelican org> wrote:

> On Friday, 13 October, 2023 16:04, "Laura Smith via NANOG" <
> nanog () nanog org> said:
>
> > RIPE could do the same.  And some might argue that it is easier for RIPE
> because
> > all we are asking is for a valid abuse contact, so its not like Nominet
> who have
> > to verify e.g. registrant company ID numbers.
>
> They do.  In previous lives, I've regularly been on the receiving end of
> assorted audit requests from RIPE, some of which are to do with contact
> details in the DB (particularly when they find unreachable ones), and some
> of which are confirming that number resources are still in use by the
> organisation and for the purpose for which they were issued.
>
> I think the original complaint was that RIPE don't act (or less so than
> ARIN) to block or otherwise deal with people who are mining the DB for
> contacts, despite that being an incentive to put "real" data in the DB -
> not than that they don't push for accurate data in the DB.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim.