[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Members and Multiple LIR Accounts - Please Discuss
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Markus
universe at truemetal.org
Wed Feb 17 14:27:56 CET 2016
Am 16.02.2016 um 13:17 schrieb David Treanor: >> 1. Is the activity of members opening additional LIR accounts a >> problem >> that must be prevented? > > The rapid increase in new account creation seems to indicate that this is being used to abuse the rules. Yes it must be prevented. +1 I would like to bring to everyones attention that it's obviously already possible to create multiple LIRs under the same company: # wget http://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats/membership/alloclist.txt # cat alloclist.txt | grep ^[a-z][a-z]. | cut -b 1-6 | uniq -c | sort -rn 36 uk.ngs ... 10 ae.hax Meaning: If you look at http://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats/membership/alloclist.txt in your browser you'll find that "HAX CONSULTANCY DMCC" (HAX as in hack(s)...) has opened 10 LIRs, and "Next Global Services LP" has opened a whopping 36 LIRs. Each has a /22 of course. HAX uses a gmail address as their LIR address. :-) https://www.ripe.net/membership/indices/data/ae.hax201.html NGS is in control of 36.864 IPs. If they sell every IP at a bargain price of 6 EUR per IP they've earned 221.184 EUR. This guys costs were 72.000 EUR one-time (36 x 2.000 EUR setup fee) and 57.600 EUR for the first year (36 x 1.600 EUR) = 129.600 EUR. 221.184 EUR - 129.600 EUR = 91.584 EUR profit made out of thin air. Not bad! Really, RIPE? Cheers Markus
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