[arin-ppml] distributing resources for individuals

[Owen DeLong]

While your statement is technically true, what they do not provide is an authoritative proof that an entity does not exist as a legal entity which can be verified. In fact, not all states registries will even allow the listing of sole proprietorships without a fictitious name and some of those states won’t allow fictitious name use of the individual’s legal name. 

I doubt you would find any of the following organizations which legally exist in California in the SOS registry:
   Delong Consulting
   Owen DeLong and Family
   Purple Politico

This doesn’t prevent two of them from appearing on schedule C forms and it hasn’t prevented ARIN from taking money from the third for decades for resources being registered to it. 

ARIN’s misuse of SOS registries as an authoritative source of proof an organization doesn’t exist is what is the crux of the issue here. 

When DNS returns NXDOMAIN from an authoritative server, you know that that record doesn’t exist. This is not the case with SOS registries. All you can get from them is that the organization definitely exists or absent a record, that the organization may or may not exist. 

Owen


> On Apr 17, 2025, at 18:12, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
> 
> Paul -
> 
> At explained to you on several occasions (including in-person at WISPA), ARIN conducts a business entity search within your state’s registry and that returns corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorships, DBA names, etc.  Secretary of State business entity registries provide public-facing, authoritative records confirming that an organization exists as a legal entity which can be verified for every state in a clear, consistent, and neutral manner.
> 
> Thanks,
> /John
> 
> John Curran
> President and CEO
> American Registry for Internet Numbers
> 
> 
>> On Apr 17, 2025, at 8:42 PM, Paul E McNary <pmcnary at cameron.net> wrote:
>> 
>> ARIN wouldn't accept my City, County, business licenses or my state business IDs from Department of Revenue on a business that I started in ,1979. Why?
> 
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