Did a fast lookup via ARIN WHOIS:

44/8 is now 44/9 + 44.128/10

NetRange:       44.0.0.0 - 44.191.255.255
CIDR:           44.0.0.0/9, 44.128.0.0/10
NetName:        AMPRNET
NetHandle:      NET-44-0-0-0-1
Parent:         NET44 (NET-44-0-0-0-0)
NetType:        Direct Assignment
OriginAS:
Organization:   Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
RegDate:        1992-07-01
Updated:        2019-07-18
Ref:            https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/44.0.0.0




On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 11:04 AM Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 10:59 PM Majdi S. Abbas <msa@latt.net> wrote:
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>         What's interesting about this is it was not an ARIN allocation,

So.. this is/was a legacy allocation, right?  with some 'not great'
contact/etc info...
the ARIN folk could have said: "Well.... sure! if the current folk who
control access can positively show they do AND they don't mind parting
with a /10... ok?"

This ends up with a /10 of a /8 with better registration information
and MAYBE better records keeping over time, right?
that seems like a win to the ARIN community?