I'm on a few ARIN mailing lists. They really seem to go out of their way (more than they probably should) to help people.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 5:40:25 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] changing company name with ARIN Maybe I'm confusing them with the government. -----Original Message----- From: Faisal Imtiaz Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 3:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] changing company name with ARIN Ken, Short answer is yes, we did something similar.. The best advice I can offer you is to call ARIN and speak to one of their folks. You will be pleasantly surprised. Their mission is to make things work for you, as specified by the framework of ARIN as an organization. They are not the owners of IP's, but an organization belonging to the members, and as such there are there to serve the members. If you have been paying your dues, then you are a member ! Nothing to fear, they cannot simply take stuff away.... Regards Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 3:31:20 PM > Subject: [AFMUG] changing company name with ARIN > 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.
