[members-discuss] My Question To All LIR Members

What makes matters even worse, is that last month in late April I 
received a last thousand ip address allocation from RIPE. I didn't even 
route it/announce it until this past week. I haven't even deployed this 
new range yet and already Maxmind has it all marked as anonymous 
proxies. And this is on a brand new allocation that hasn't even been 
deployed yet to any one.

On 2014-05-28 09:42, Edward Dore wrote:
> Have you asked them why they believe the IP address space in question
> is being used to run open/anonymous proxy servers?
> 
> Edward Dore
> Freethought Internet
> 
> On 28 May 2014, at 09:30, admin at intl-alliance.com wrote:
> 
>> I have already gone through the process of informing them, using
>> their
>> corrections form on their website, and pleading with them to update
>> their database. For years, this worked just fine. They used to be a
>> very
>> cooperative company. Starting last week, they began marking huge
>> sections of my ip addresses as anonymous proxies and completely
>> removing
>> any country information from them. Then these inaccuracies were then
>> 
>> sold to all their clients and now sections of my ip ranges are all
>> screwed up now and as a direct result of that, I lose business in my
>> 
>> line of work. Here is the response I received from them after a very
>> 
>> long email to them:
>> 
>> Dear Mr. Twyler,
>> 
>> As you're aware, we endeavor to provide accurate IP geolocation of
>> Internet end-users and to identify proxies where possible in our IP
>> intelligence products. We may not accept corrections to our data
>> where
>> we believe they do not increase the accuracy of our IP geolocation
>> or
>> improve proxy identification.
>> If you'd like to communicate with our legal counsel, we invite you
>> to
>> email legal at maxmind.com.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Jason Ketola
>> V.P., Operations
>> 
>> This response would have been tolerable had I been a proxy supplier.
>> 
>> However I am not. And this company is completely unwilling to
>> reconsider
>> my case, even though I've informed them that they are causing me a
>> massive loss of business by doing this.
>> 
>> On 2014-05-28 09:10, Dpto. Datos Television Costa Blanca wrote:
>> Hi Jared,
>> 
>> What do you mean exactly?
>> MaxMind != RIR
>> 
>> MaxMind is only a company who sell geolocation services based on IP
>> Address.
>> Being member of a RIR is a completely different thing.
>> 
>> Also, whats wrong on the maxmind geo database?
>> 
>> I have updated several IP blocks on Ripe Database and maxmind
>> updated
>> it.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> 
>> El 28/05/2014 8:55, admin at intl-alliance.com escribió:
>> Here is a question I propose to all RIPE NCC LIR members:
>> 
>> What is the point in remaining a LIR member of the RIPE NCC if
>> private
>> companies like www.maxmind.com [1] do not have to adhere to the data
>> 
>> that’s
>> officially published in the NCC ip address database? If private
>> companies are allowed to produce their own ip databases based on
>> information not obtained in the official NCC database, why continue
>> on
>> with membership here? It seems pointless if a private company can
>> completely ignore a LIR database, produce and then sell faulty
>> databases
>> to thousands of websites.
>> 
>> Jared Twyler
>> Chief Executive Officer
>> IAPS Security Services, L.L.C.
>> Skype: iaps_support
>> FB: http://www.facebook.com/iapscorp [2]
>> Blog: http://www.jareds-blog.com [3]
>> Web: http://www.intl-alliance.com/store [4]
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