Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting

Where did you see stuff about FTP/POP3, etc.? I saw lots of stuff about HTTP, which is to be expected, but I didn't see any references to other services.

It's not uncommon to provide those services as part of the Web hosting bundle. We provide a virtual FTP site to every customer who has our virtual Web hosting service. Many of them rely on it - anonymous FTP sites are still actually quite popular and important to many users. We also provide virtual POP3, virtual IMAP, etc. I know that other providers even go so far as to virtualize Telnet, finger, and probably others. Once you need IPs to virtualize one useful service, the rest may as well be done. There are lots of issues the policy doesn't even begin to consider. Kevin