[AFMUG] changing company name with ARIN

[Ken Hohhof]

Has anyone ever done a company name change on your ARIN account?  Any chance 
that could end badly?  I'm actually not talking a name change, more like 
consolidating 2 companies.

Years ago I formed a second corporation to acquire another ISP (in case 
there were skeletons in the closet).  The ARIN account is under the original 
corporate name, which I actually dissolved awhile back and everything now 
operates under the new corporation.  (Got tired of paying double to the 
state, lawyer and accountant every year.)

Now that I applied for an IPv6 allocation, ARIN is saying no, they can't 
find my organization name listed with the state.

If I tell ARIN the real story, could they do bad stuff like take back my 
IPv4 allocation?  Would I be better off doing something like listing the old 
name with the state as an official DBA under the new corporation?  Given the 
wording I got from ARIN, I'm not sure that would satisfy them.