On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Oscar Ricardo Silva <osi...@scuff.cc.utexas.edu> wrote: > On 07/02/2010 01:46 PM, Crist Clark wrote: >> >> We got a strange and out of the blue inquiry from someone >> wishing to pay us for a chunk of our ARIN allocation, >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> According to Whois data, you company owns the following >>> IP address space: >>> >>> 206.220.220.0/24 >>> >>> We would like to get this block of IP addresses for our business >>> needs. Is it possible to assign this block for our company with >>> PI (Provider Independent) or PA (Provider Assigned) status? >>> >>> We ready to pay about $5,000 for the net block itself >>> and all related procedures. >>> >>> Would you be interested in such an offer? The amount of compensation >>> is subject to negotiation. >> >> We're not interested, mostly because we use our allocation, >> but also because I think this is not allowed by our agreement >> with ARIN. Seems a bit fishy. >> >> I should add the sender identified himself and his company >> clearly. It wasn't from some free mail account. (Although it >> could of course be spoofed.) >> >> Is this a new thing? IP speculation as we come upon free pool >> depletion? A front for spammers? > > > Yeah, we received the same kind of offer here. Here's the message in full: > > ****************************** > Hello, > > According to Whois data, you company owns the following > IP address space: > > 146.6.6.0/24 > > We would like to get this block of IP addresses for our business > needs. Is it possible to assign this block for our company with > PI (Provider Independent) or PA (Provider Assigned) status? > > We ready to pay about $5,000 for the net block itself > and all related procedures. > > Would you be interested in such an offer? The amount of compensation > is subject to negotiation. > > -- > Kind regards, > Sergey Gotsulyak
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2010/msg00038.html http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2010/msg00039.html > > Ideco Sales Team > 280 Madison Ave, Suite 912 > New York, NY 10016 > > Phone: (800) 715-3502 > Email: g...@idecogateway.com > Web: www.idecogateway.com > ****************************** > > > Oscar > >