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<div>On Jun 22, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Mike Burns wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; ">... Microsoft paid $7.5 million for addresses which ARIN says they could have got from ARIN for free, because they passed the justification test.</span></blockquote>
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<div>Mike - </div>
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<div> If requested resources from the free pool every 90 days, and if the</div>
<div> pool had held out, then they may have achieved the same goal.</div>
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<div> Many parties seem attracted to the certainty from having a large </div>
<div> block of number resources to meet their future business needs;</div>
<div> in addition to Microsoft, the following additional transfers have</div>
<div> been transferred from bankruptcy estates:</div>
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<div> Borders Group, Inc., et al., (S.D.NY) 12/20/2011 1 /16</div>
<div> Teknowledge Corporation (N.D.CA) 1/24/2012 1/16<br>
Northern Telecom Canada, Ltd. (Nortel II – Canada) 2/24/2012 2/16’s</div>
<div> Bell-Northern Research (Nortel II – Canada) 2/29/2012 1/14 2/29/2012 1/14 4/10/2012 2/16’s</div>
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<div> You'd have to ask the recipients why the value receiving number </div>
<div> resources through transfer; ARIN simply processes the requests</div>
<div> per policy.</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
<div>President and CEO</div>
<div>ARIN</div>
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