sounds like domain tasting to me. --bill
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 01:04:48AM -0400, Peter Beckman wrote: > How about a trial period from ARIN? You get your IP block, and you get 30 > days to determine if it is "clean" or not. Do some testing, check the > blacklists, do some magic to see if there are network-specific blacklists > that might prevent your customers from sending or receiving email/web/other > connections with that new IP block. > > If there are problems, go back to ARIN and show them your work and if they > can verify your work (or are simply lazy) you get a different block. ARIN > puts the block into another quiet period. Maybe they use the work you did > to clean up the block, maybe they don't. > > Cleaning up a block of IPs previously used by shady characters has a real > cost, both in time and money. The argument as I see it is who bears the > responsibility and cost of that cleanup. > > Beckman > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Beckman Internet Guy > beck...@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------