Earlier this year, I delivered a lightning talk at NANOG 78 about how ARIN handles Internet number resource fraud reporting and related investigations. This has [READ MORE]
We’re beginning to enter the 2020 ARIN Elections season and wanted to bring your attention to a few important dates coming up. ARIN Membership has its perks, but the privilege to vote each year in the ARIN Board of Trustees and Advisory Council, and every two out of three years in the…
An emergent IPv4 transfer market and IPv4 address scarcity have led to increased attempts to fraudulently obtain IP addresses. In late 2018, ARIN uncovered an elaborate scheme to defraud the Internet community of approximately 735,000 IPv4 addresses, and ARIN responded in accordance with community-developed policies and through legal means pursuant…
Internal process for handling route hijacking reports With increased interest in BGP hijacking (also known as “route hijacking”), we thought it might be helpful to explain how we currently handle these reports. First of all, the Registration Services team receives route hijacking complaints from many different sources including other RIRs,…