If it's legacy, there are no bills? On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 7:54 PM Quan Zhou <q...@posteo.net> wrote:
> I wonder whom did the ARIN have sent bills to. > > On 8/15/19 12:40 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > As if to underscore the point I just tried to make about the fundamental > > unreliability of ARIN WHOIS records, I just stumbled onto this rather > > curious entity which was apparently given a sub-allocation of > 216.179.183.0/24 > > beneath the 216.179.128.0/17 (Azuki, Inc.) block as of 2012-01-10: > > > > OrgName: Rogers Communications Inc > > OrgId: RC-82 > > Address: E 2nd St,Campbell > > City: Gillette > > StateProv: WY > > PostalCode: 82716 > > Country: US > > RegDate: 2012-01-10 > > Updated: 2012-01-10 > > Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/RC-82 > > > > Other that the fact that it has an oddly similar name to one of Canada's > > largest and most well-known Internet and cell phone companies, the only > > other thing that's rather remarkable about it is that it was given the > > 216.179.183.0/24 block, by Azuki, Inc. in 2012. What's odd about that? > > Well, only the fact that this *Wyoming* incarnation of Rogers > Communications > > had apparently already died and gone to Valhalla some 14 years earlier, > > in 1998: > > > > > https://wyobiz.wy.gov/Business/FilingDetails.aspx?eFNum=070023242004106130056183154143023082073130141117 > > > > Moral of the story: Don't ever let anybody tell you that ghosts... even > > ghosts of long dead companies... aren't real or that they do not walk > > among us. Their immortal auras pervade the very ether we breath. > > > > And they have their own IPs, apparently. > > > > But, you know, if your customers are getting hack attacks emmanating from > > 216.179.183.0/24... well... to quote the old Ghostbusters tag line "Who > > you gonna call?" (Hint: Don't waste your time calling the number in the > > WHOIS record. It's just some bloody preschool.) > > > > Regards, > > rfg >
