ARIN can’t do much about that… Have you contacted RIPE and/or APNIC and asked them to take appropriate action?
Owen > On Jan 6, 2020, at 07:58 , David Guo via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > > Good News! But we still received several spams from Cogent for our RIPE and > APNIC ASNs. > > From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> On Behalf Of John Curran > Sent: Monday, January 6, 2020 11:43 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois > Importance: High > > On 22 Sep 2019, at 8:52 AM, Tim Burke <t...@tburke.us > <mailto:t...@tburke.us>> wrote: > > That is just The Cogent Way™, unfortunately. I just had (yet another) Cogent > rep spam me using an email address that is _only_ used as an ARIN contact, > trying to sell me bandwidth. When I called him out on it, with > complia...@arin.net <mailto:complia...@arin.net> CCed, he backpedaled and > claimed to obtain my information from Google. > > ARIN has repeatedly informed Cogent that their use of the ARIN Whois for > solicitation is contrary to the terms of use and that they must stop. > Despite ARIN’s multiple written demands to Cogent to cease these prohibited > activities, ARIN has continued to receive complaints from registrants that > Cogent continues to engage in these prohibited solicitation activities. > > For this reason, ARIN has suspended Cogent Communications’ use of ARIN’s > Whois database effective today and continuing for a period of six months. > For additional details please refer > tohttps://www.arin.net/vault/about_us/corp_docs/20200106_whois_tos_violation.pdf > > <https://www.arin.net/vault/about_us/corp_docs/20200106_whois_tos_violation.pdf> > ARIN will restore Cogent’s access to the Whois database at an earlier > time if Cogent meets certain conditions, including instructing its sales > personnel not to engage in the prohibited solicitation activities. > > Given the otherwise general availability of ARIN Whois, it is quite possible > that Cogent personnel may evade the suspension via various means and continue > their solicitation. If that does occur, please inform us (via > complia...@arin.net <mailto:complia...@arin.net>), as ARIN is prepared to > extend the suspension and/or bring appropriate legal action. > > FYI, > /John > > John Curran > President and CEO > American Registry for Internet Numbers
