Hey Tony/Eddie I think your choice of email signature may have given away the game a little bit here
Regards Ben Cartwright-Cox On Mon, Jan 8, 2024, 20:00 Tony Wicks <[email protected]> wrote: > I have used Eddie at iptrading several times over the yearsfor IP block > purchases and never had this sort of issue, so would count this as a > recommendation. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Eddie Stauble > > > > [email protected] > > 855-IPTRADE (855-478-7233) Ext 107 Direct: 754-227-8423 > > > > <https://iptrading.com/> > > *From:* NANOG <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *John > Curran > *Sent:* Monday, January 8, 2024 7:46 PM > *To:* Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected] list <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: IPv4 address block > > > > On Jan 7, 2024, at 9:04 PM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I might note that one of the qualified facilitators on the list recently > "sold" me a block where the original entity which obtained it in the 1990s > was still announcing it to all of their peers and trantsi after the wire > transfer had been done, the ARIN process was done/ticket closed, and the > block resided with my AS. > > > > Interesting. If you believe that the qualified facilitator failed in > their duty to you (more specifically, if they did not live up to an aspect > of the code of conduct – > https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/transfers/facilitators/codeofconduct/) > then please drop ARIN a message with the specifics to > [email protected] > > > > It took a significant amount of badgering the original block holder (an > entity with which we had no pre-existing relationship or direct contacts > into their engineering department) to get them to withdraw the > announcement, which we did independently of the broker and quicker than > they responded to us. So my message would be to do your own due diligence > and investigation of IP space and don't trust what the "broker" tells you. > > > > Absolutely - always a good idea. > > > > Thanks for feedback! > > /John > > > > John Curran > > President and CEO > > American Registry for Internet Numbers > > > > > > > > >
