I wonder whom did the ARIN have sent bills to. On 8/15/19 12:40 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
As if to underscore the point I just tried to make about the fundamental unreliability of ARIN WHOIS records, I just stumbled onto this rather curious entity which was apparently given a sub-allocation of 216.179.183.0/24 beneath the 216.179.128.0/17 (Azuki, Inc.) block as of 2012-01-10:
OrgName: Rogers Communications Inc OrgId: RC-82 Address: E 2nd St,Campbell City: Gillette StateProv: WY PostalCode: 82716 Country: US RegDate: 2012-01-10 Updated: 2012-01-10 Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/RC-82
Other that the fact that it has an oddly similar name to one of Canada's largest and most well-known Internet and cell phone companies, the only other thing that's rather remarkable about it is that it was given the 216.179.183.0/24 block, by Azuki, Inc. in 2012. What's odd about that? Well, only the fact that this *Wyoming* incarnation of Rogers Communications had apparently already died and gone to Valhalla some 14 years earlier, in 1998:
https://wyobiz.wy.gov/Business/FilingDetails.aspx?eFNum=07002324200410613005...
Moral of the story: Don't ever let anybody tell you that ghosts... even ghosts of long dead companies... aren't real or that they do not walk among us. Their immortal auras pervade the very ether we breath.
And they have their own IPs, apparently.
But, you know, if your customers are getting hack attacks emmanating from 216.179.183.0/24... well... to quote the old Ghostbusters tag line "Who you gonna call?" (Hint: Don't waste your time calling the number in the WHOIS record. It's just some bloody preschool.)
Regards, rfg