We got a strange and out of the blue inquiry from someone wishing to pay us for a chunk of our ARIN allocation,
> Hello, > > According to Whois data, you company owns the following > IP address space: > > 206.220.220.0/24 > > We would like to get this block of IP addresses for our business > needs. Is it possible to assign this block for our company with > PI (Provider Independent) or PA (Provider Assigned) status? > > We ready to pay about $5,000 for the net block itself > and all related procedures. > > Would you be interested in such an offer? The amount of compensation > is subject to negotiation. We're not interested, mostly because we use our allocation, but also because I think this is not allowed by our agreement with ARIN. Seems a bit fishy. I should add the sender identified himself and his company clearly. It wasn't from some free mail account. (Although it could of course be spoofed.) Is this a new thing? IP speculation as we come upon free pool depletion? A front for spammers?
