John, In the cases I'm aware of (which were some time ago), there was (to my knowledge) no fraud involved.
Or are you indicating the mechanisms I described are in some way fraudulent? Regards, -drc On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:46 PM, John Curran wrote: > On Apr 8, 2010, at 3:51 PM, David Conrad wrote: >> Sure they are. I personally know of several cases where addresses have been >> sold. Right now, people have to go through a bunch of foo, creating dummy >> companies to hold the IP address assets, transferring the assets, selling >> the dummy companies, etc., but the end result is the same. > > David - > > Please report these events to: > <https://www.arin.net/resources/fraud/index.html>: > > "This reporting process is to be used to notify ARIN of suspected Internet > number resource abuse including the submission of falsified utilization or > organization information, unauthorized changes to data in ARIN's WHOIS, > hijacking of number resources in ARIN's database, or fraudulent transfers." > > We do investigate, and if we can determine falsified information was used > to effect a transfer, we will revert the transfer and/or initiate resource > review as appropriate. > > /John > > John Curran > President and CEO > ARIN > >
