We were contacted by Admiral Hosting in London to rent some our unused IP space. While they insist that they're not spammers, we can not find out much about them. Has anyone had any dealings with this company? Legit? Scam? We are not interested in contributing to the Scam/Spam problem and figured I would ask here. As this is not, technically, NA-related, private replies are preferred. I'll summarize to the list.
We were contacted by Admiral Hosting in London to rent some our unused IP space.
anyone wanting to rent/lease space is 99% sure to be not nice folk. if you get your space back, it will be radioactive with an amazingly long half life. if you are willing to let go of the space, just tell them the price for which you are willing to sell it. randy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MQ356o5nCk On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
We were contacted by Admiral Hosting in London to rent some our unused IP space.
anyone wanting to rent/lease space is 99% sure to be not nice folk. if you get your space back, it will be radioactive with an amazingly long half life.
if you are willing to let go of the space, just tell them the price for which you are willing to sell it.
randy
And I’d *love* to hear the story they come up with when you ask why they only want to rent space vs buy it… -C
On Jul 27, 2017, at 9:22 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
We were contacted by Admiral Hosting in London to rent some our unused IP space.
anyone wanting to rent/lease space is 99% sure to be not nice folk. if you get your space back, it will be radioactive with an amazingly long half life.
if you are willing to let go of the space, just tell them the price for which you are willing to sell it.
randy
I've heard of some people that don't have the capital to purchase their own block yet, but want PI space so they can move away from whomever is providing their transit + IP space now. I'm sure the discussed reason is much more prevalent, though. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Woodfield" <chris@semihuman.com> To: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>, "Michael Wayne" <nanog@wayne47.com> Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 11:31:47 AM Subject: Re: Admiral Hosting in London And I’d *love* to hear the story they come up with when you ask why they only want to rent space vs buy it… -C
On Jul 27, 2017, at 9:22 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
We were contacted by Admiral Hosting in London to rent some our unused IP space.
anyone wanting to rent/lease space is 99% sure to be not nice folk. if you get your space back, it will be radioactive with an amazingly long half life.
if you are willing to let go of the space, just tell them the price for which you are willing to sell it.
randy
On August 8, 2017 6:25:56 PM MDT, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
I've heard of some people that don't have the capital to purchase their own block yet, but want PI space so they can move away from whomever is providing their transit + IP space now. I'm sure the discussed reason is much more prevalent, though.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com
Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Woodfield" <chris@semihuman.com> To: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>, "Michael Wayne" <nanog@wayne47.com> Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 11:31:47 AM Subject: Re: Admiral Hosting in London
And I’d *love* to hear the story they come up with when you ask why they only want to rent space vs buy it…
-C
On Jul 27, 2017, at 9:22 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
We were contacted by Admiral Hosting in London to rent some our unused IP space.
anyone wanting to rent/lease space is 99% sure to be not nice folk. if you get your space back, it will be radioactive with an amazingly long half life.
if you are willing to let go of the space, just tell them the price for which you are willing to sell it.
randy
We are renting space to supplement our ARIN IPv4 allocation until we get 464xlat going. Some of the IPs had bad reputations but we sorted them out. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Hello, On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 03:54:01PM -0400, Michael Wayne wrote:
We were contacted by Admiral Hosting in London to rent some our unused IP space. While they insist that they're not spammers, we can not find out much about them.
Has anyone had any dealings with this company? Legit? Scam? We are not interested in contributing to the Scam/Spam problem and figured I would ask here.
Had a couple of exactly the same messages from them. It seems like one guy with no infrastructure of their own. Asked him a few questions along the lines of why he was willing to pay more than the cost of becoming a RIPE member for less than a /22 and he eventually went away. As others have said, anyone wanting to lease IPs is likely going to do something that ruins the reputation of the IPs and relies on not having their name on it at the registry level. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
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