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<div class="">On 26 Jul 2022, at 8:27 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <<a href="mailto:rfg@tristatelogic.com" class="">rfg@tristatelogic.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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in general, I believe ARIN _does_ know all of that, except when it comes to</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">
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entities, where it appear to be blind as a bat.</span></div>
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<div class="">Deceased entities generally don’t pay their renewal invoices. which then results</div>
<div class="">in revocation of the associated number resources… (and no need to track them) </div>
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<div class="">Your stream of hypothetical situations has predominantly been regarding deceased</div>
<div class="">entities that somehow have still manage to have their ARIN invoices paid on an </div>
<div class="">ongoing basis - not likely to be a very common occurrence with truly defunct entities. </div>
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<div class="">Thanks,</div>
<div class="">/John</div>
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<div class="">John Curran</div>
<div class="">President and CEO</div>
<div class="">American Registry for Internet Numbers</div>
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