Welcome to nanog aka the cold call jungle Sent from my iPhone
On 2013-07-25, at 6:31 PM, "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." <o...@ocosa.com> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Warren Bailey [mailto:wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 6:20 PM > To: Justin Vocke; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: RE: ARIN WHOIS for leads > >> Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of maintaining the whois? > > Yep! > >> We registered a few domains and get the same thing, I think it's > something that people are going to have to live with. :/ > > I agree. We just politely tell them we are not interested and move on > about our day. Some cold callers we have taken up on offers. It just > depends who calls and whether or not we are looking for new service. > WHOIS Privacy is nice for the domains and we use for some of our domains > but not all. We just hate when customers get those scam notices and call > us or open tickets about it. > > Otis > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Justin Vocke <justin.vo...@gmail.com> > Date: 07/25/2013 4:04 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: ARIN WHOIS for leads > > > Sent this little e-mail to ARIN: > > I'm not sure that you guys can do anything about this, but it's worth > looking into. I registered AS626XX a week ago, and since it's > registration, I've been getting calls from "wholesale" carriers trying > to get me to purchase IP transit from them. Someone is obviously using > your database of contact information to generate sales leads. > > 512-377-6827 was one of the numbers trying to get more information about > my network and how they could "help" me. > > My guess is someone is using your mass whois database, looking at the > most recently issued/created AS numbers, and cold calling. > > Just thought I'd pass this along. > --------- > > Due to the amount of calls I've received, I'm guessing its probably a > good idea to remove my contact info from the registration and setup > role's instead. > > Does this sorta thing happen frequently with new registrations or did I > just draw the short straw? > > Best, > Justin >
