Request to lease IP space, or things that make you want to go hmmmmm..
Just got an email today to our account associated with our legacy ARIN address space. A firm "Precision Management of Texas" is interested in subleasing some of our IP space for "on-demand solutions for brand marketers and website promotion chiefly through email marketing". The one thing clear within the large amount of marketing-speach is they want "As is the nature of this business PM seeks to obtain as much diversity in the allocated IP space as possible, however the most important thing is the Subnets need to have no abuse history." Anyone else get solicited? They seem to be flexible "We can take the IPs via GRE or BGP or other such tunneling solution to where you have them announced. Alternatively we can advertise them ourselves on our network, saving you the back-haul. As a third solution we can take a server on your network with the following specs:..." ---- Matthew Huff | 1 Manhattanville Rd Director of Operations | Purchase, NY 10577 OTA Management LLC | Phone: 914-460-4039 aim: matthewbhuff | Fax: 914-460-4139
On 09/03/12 09:40, Matthew Huff wrote:
Just got an email today to our account associated with our legacy ARIN address space. A firm "Precision Management of Texas" is interested in subleasing some of our IP space for "on-demand solutions for brand marketers and website promotion chiefly through email marketing".
The one thing clear within the large amount of marketing-speach is they want "As is the nature of this business PM seeks to obtain as much diversity in the allocated IP space as possible, however the most important thing is the Subnets need to have no abuse history."
Anyone else get solicited?
They seem to be flexible "We can take the IPs via GRE or BGP or other such tunneling solution to where you have them announced. Alternatively we can advertise them ourselves on our network, saving you the back-haul. As a third solution we can take a server on your network with the following specs:..."
Translation of their request: "We'd like to use your IP address reputation to bypass spam filters by spreading our footprint out as much as possible and spam a few million people into the ground because we've ruined the reputation of every other IP address we've ever used. May we destroy your reputation?"
Hi, On 3/8/2012 5:40 PM, Matthew Huff wrote:
Just got an email today to our account associated with our legacy ARIN address space. A firm "Precision Management of Texas" is interested in subleasing some of our IP space for "on-demand solutions for brand marketers and website promotion chiefly through email marketing".
The one thing clear within the large amount of marketing-speach is they want "As is the nature of this business PM seeks to obtain as much diversity in the allocated IP space as possible, however the most important thing is the Subnets need to have no abuse history."
Anyone else get solicited?
Yes, they have spammed me regarding some legacy space I control.
They seem to be flexible "We can take the IPs via GRE or BGP or other such tunneling solution to where you have them announced. Alternatively we can advertise them ourselves on our network, saving you the back-haul. As a third solution we can take a server on your network with the following specs:..."
To which my response was something along the lines of "no thanks." These guys just want your IPs so they can get around whatever IP reputation problem they have. It will most probably infect the rest of your netblock, as that is standard MO for any anti-abuse DNSBL. What is odd is -- they solicit anyone with legacy space, even if it's just a /24 worth, this is odd because they want you to provide them with more than one subnet, which probably means they want IPs on different /24 boundaries since some mail filtering systems use the /24 boundary. William
A quick Google search found: http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2012-January/023892.html Lyle Giese LCR Computer Services, Inc. On 03/08/12 17:40, Matthew Huff wrote:
Just got an email today to our account associated with our legacy ARIN address space. A firm "Precision Management of Texas" is interested in subleasing some of our IP space for "on-demand solutions for brand marketers and website promotion chiefly through email marketing".
The one thing clear within the large amount of marketing-speach is they want "As is the nature of this business PM seeks to obtain as much diversity in the allocated IP space as possible, however the most important thing is the Subnets need to have no abuse history."
Anyone else get solicited?
They seem to be flexible "We can take the IPs via GRE or BGP or other such tunneling solution to where you have them announced. Alternatively we can advertise them ourselves on our network, saving you the back-haul. As a third solution we can take a server on your network with the following specs:..."
---- Matthew Huff | 1 Manhattanville Rd Director of Operations | Purchase, NY 10577 OTA Management LLC | Phone: 914-460-4039 aim: matthewbhuff | Fax: 914-460-4139
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