I agree with all of this. I took me years to clear up our Org ID with ARIN to prove our current company was indeed the entity that absorbed the previous company. While public documentation on our state's SoS site clearly showed our old LLC being dissolved, with a new dBa being created under the same parent company, with the same name as the previous LLC, I still had to produce INTERNAL company documentation that went over the acquisition.
This is where having an old accountant still employed with the company proved his weight in gold. He remembered meeting minutes, notes, documentation, as well as dates and where all of that was actually sitting in a file cabinet. Mind you, the acquisition took place more than a decade before I came onboard with the company. Nobody thought to update our ARIN account at the time with the new company info and let it fester for years until ARIN had no way of verifying we were who we were saying. Considering the value of IPv4 space in today's market, I don't question at all how serious ARIN is about requiring proof of ownership. While the process doesn't ease the situation, it does its role in ensuring a bad actor can't fake their way into acquiring your legacy assets. Jess Basl SCTC / PTC CO Network Admin *502 N. 2nd Ave* *Stayton, OR 97383* *(503)769-8807* On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 10:05 AM jay--- via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/11/26 13:53, John Palmer via NANOG wrote: > > ARIN is again being problematic. > > > > They are asking for a document showing that the company is in good > standing. > > We attached the document but they refuse to accept it and are giving us > the > > run-around. We already certified this back in 2024. The ARIN consultant > > simply went on the state website and was able to see the company was in > good > > standing. Now they want a document that doesn't exist (state provides no > > such document). > > We went through something very similar. Numerous mergers and > acquisitions, some legacy space, and the cherry on top was that our > company went through a name change in the middle of the process. > Eventually we got through it. > > > The other two three orgs that we are trying to merge into our current > OrgId > > - those may be a bit more difficult - being registered back when you sent > > Jon Postel an e-mail template to get space. > > As was our oldest block. > > > Look, we are trying to give them MORE money (the fee will go up if we add > > those IP4 resources to our existing RSA). Hard to believe they are this > > difficult. > > They are being "difficult" due to the many bad actors stealing legacy > IPv4 space and selling it. Once IPv4 became a monetized commodity things > have gotten really ugly. ARIN is protecting your interests, though > sometimes it doesn't seem like it. > > It's due diligence. > > Keep at it, work with them. Respond to their requests on the ticket(s) > and keep at it. You will need to do some digging. > > -- > Jay Hennigan - [email protected] > Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 > 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV > > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WF6XP4PVOGQ2RH45TRIFZX4R5HFWYW2K/ > -- Like us on Social Media for News, Promotions, and other information!! <https://www.facebook.com/SCTCWEB/> <https://www.instagram.com/sctc_sctc/> <https://www.yelp.com/biz/sctc-stayton-3> <https://www.youtube.com/c/sctcvideos> _**** This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. ****_ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/V6CW4K6DNF2QVYOBHL7WZT6WLS2T7ZTF/
