[arin-discuss] Offer to buy IP space

[Bill Sandiford]

They seem to be looking for IPs where the middle 2 octets are the same.  Looks like they are doing some sort of vanity DNS service.

Seems fishy to me.

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-discuss-
> bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Radzwon, Tony
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 3:35 PM
> To: 'Paul Vixie'; arin-discuss at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] Offer to buy IP space
> 
> I just received a similar offer, It must be some hoax as they are
> trying to get IP space I have assigned to customers already. Also
> strange is they are looking at a /24 in the middle of one of my /15
> CIDR's, so needless to say we would not sell it if we could.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-discuss-
> bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Paul Vixie
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 2:32 PM
> To: arin-discuss at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] Offer to buy IP space
> 
> > From: Tim Huffman <Tim at bobbroadband.com>
> > Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:22:18 -0500
> >
> > I recently received an offer to buy an IP block from our
> > organization. Needless to say, I have absolutely no interest in
> > this. Does ARIN care about things like this? Should I report it, or
> > should I just ignore it?
> 
> at my day job we just received two of these, both forwarded to ARIN's
> fraud desk at <https://www.arin.net/resources/fraud/index.html>.
> 
> Paul Vixie
> Chair, ARIN BoT
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