On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 6:05 PM jay--- via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote:
> We went through something very similar. Numerous mergers and > acquisitions, some legacy space, and the cherry on top was that our > company went through a name change in the middle of the process. > Eventually we got through it. As did we (well, the org I was part of at the time) Yes, it can all be annoying, but I agree that it is, in practice, now necessary. When I tried to "legitimize" our existence and move to a (L)RSA it took quite some time. Along with way, we (and ARIN) found that we had: We (well, PacBell) had changed the area code (so phone numbers did not match from the legacy records). We had changed our primary contact phone and email addresses (regardless of the new area code, the numbers were different). The original contacts had long since no longer been contactable (they moved on, or had passed). We updated our official name, and the relevant registrations in all of the relevant (in the mind of our business organization) local registration databases, which meant the old names were no longer available (again, years before we engaged ARIN, and not all local jurisdictions had a searchable history). The only thing we had not done was physically move (I guess that was a plus in our favor), but the USPS had assigned new mail addresses a decade (or so) ago for their own reasons, and were no longer forwarding such legacy mail addresses. It took a *LOT* of time working with ARIN staff, but in the end we got it done. While I personally had wished they would just take my word, I also understand that that was just not viable in todays world (and that was a decade ago, when the level of attempts to decieve may have been lower). Perseverance is necessary. _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VSG7S23Z2XKUWNKTMU4GR5P3W7WLKV4B/
