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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I still wonder what those /14s were assigned for back in the day
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Checks out tax etc wise is a very easy thing to do with a shell company registered in a business friendly jurisdiction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="color:black">anti-abuse-wg <anti-abuse-wg-bounces@ripe.net> on behalf of Natale Maria Bianchi <nmb@spamhaus.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, 12 April 2024 at 8:39</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">PM<br>
<b>To: </b>anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net <anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [anti-abuse-wg] On "very" fast IPv6-growing entities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 12:41:15PM +0000, Daniel Mishayev wrote:<br>
> With entities like this, it appears that they just register large amounts of LIRs in order to gain the IPv6 and IPv4 resources. With the ASN that you linked (PEERLINK LTD) the large amounts of IPs belong to a Russian IP leasing platform.<br>
> <br>
> As for what it is used for - I wildly assume it will be used for scraping or botting of some kind - just consult cloudflare radar in a few days to have a general idea of the statistics of what it is used for. A large amount of ipv6 proxy companies have popped
up recently though never with this much ipv6.<br>
> <br>
> However, I can comment that PEERLINK was one of our clients and proved themselves to be legally in the clear in terms of ID verification, legal standing and tax.<br>
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I hope that RIPE NCC does not accept "scraping or botting of some kind" as a valid<br>
motivation to assign a /29, so - if this was the case - I wonder what they wrote.<br>
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Natale M Bianchi<br>
Spamhaus Project<br>
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