? % whois -h whois.arin.net 126.0.0.0 OrgName: Asia Pacific Network Information Centre OrgID: APNIC Address: PO Box 2131 City: Milton StateProv: QLD PostalCode: 4064 Country: AU ReferralServer: whois://whois.apnic.net NetRange: 126.0.0.0 - 126.255.255.255 CIDR: 126.0.0.0/8 NetName: APNIC-126 NetHandle: NET-126-0-0-0-1 Parent: NetType: Allocated to APNIC NameServer: DNS03.BBTEC.NET NameServer: DNS04.BBTEC.NET NameServer: SEC1.APNIC.NET Comment: This IP address range is not registered in the ARIN database. Comment: For details, refer to the APNIC Whois Database via Comment: WHOIS.APNIC.NET or http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois2.pl Comment: ** IMPORTANT NOTE: APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry Comment: for the Asia Pacific region. APNIC does not operate networks Comment: using this IP address range and is not able to investigate Comment: spam or abuse reports relating to these addresses. For more Comment: help, refer to http://www.apnic.net/info/faq/abuse RegDate: 2005-01-27 Updated: 2005-04-29 OrgTechHandle: AWC12-ARIN OrgTechName: APNIC Whois Contact OrgTechPhone: +61 7 3858 3100 OrgTechEmail: search-apnic-not-arin@apnic.net On Aug 5, 2005, at 12:35 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, David Conrad wrote:
They are one of the largest ISPs in Japan.
And this helps them justify a /8 _in the US_ how?
-Bill