I can confirm, it was indeed Verisign who emailed me with the same message.
I am slightly disappointed by this course of action, needless to say I am not surprised, because this kind of behavior is expected from sales people. I had a bit more respect for them, however... -ck On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Nathan Eisenberg <nat...@atlasnetworks.us>wrote: > We got the same call. I think they just trolled on through the IPv6Day > participants list. They indicated that we were likely to be 'specifically > targeted' as a result of 'putting ourselves out there'. I suspect it's > merely a misprogrammed sales drone spewing fear-infused garbage. > > The caller claimed to represent Verisign (though we took no steps to verify > that claim). If anyone from Verisign is on the list, you may want to look > into this, especially if this is actually coming from one of your employees. > > Nathan > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark Pace [mailto:p...@jolokianetworks.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 11:43 AM > > To: nanog@nanog.org > > Subject: ipv6 day DDoS threat? > > > > I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave > un-named > > for the moment. They said that they heard specific "chatter" > > about DDoS of IPv6 day participant sites and even more specifically about > our > > website. Of course they have also offered to assist us in preventing > this from > > affecting our site. I'm very skeptical about even calling said company > at this > > point. I'm really feeling like this is a shakedown and was wondering if > anyone > > else had been approached in a similar fashion? > > > > > > Mark Pace > > > > > > > >
