The e-mail states it was sent to the specific e-mail address because it was listed as the contact in WHOIS. Although you can opt-out from these notices I believe as part of the DNS Changer case the court ordered the FBI to notify ISPs.
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:39 AM, John Peach <john-na...@johnpeach.com>wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:30:47 +0000 > bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:20:08PM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Randy Epstein <na...@hostleasing.net> > wrote: > > > > > [snip] > > I missed the part where ARIN turned over its address database w/ > associatedd > > registration information to the Fed ... I mean I've always > advocated for > > LEO access, but ther has been significant pushback fromm the > community on > > unfettered access to that data. As I recall, there are even > policies and > > processes to limit/restrict external queries to prevent a DDos of > the whois > > servers. And some fairly strict policies on who gets dumps of the > address > > space. As far as I know (not very far) bundling the address > database > > -and- the registration data are not available to mere mortals. > > > > So - just how DID the Fed get the data w/o violating ARIN policy? > > > > /bill > > > > > > Ours came from our whois information. > > -- > John > >
