Close To 735K Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Have Been Uncovered and Revoked

The American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd. (ARIN) has won a legal case against an elaborate multi-year scheme to defraud the Internet community of approximately 735,000 IPv4 addresses, the organization has revealed. An anonymous reader writes: While the specifics of the findings are not released, John Curran, ARIN President and CEO said the fraud was detected as a result of an internal due diligence process. ARIN is a nonprofit member-based organization responsible for distributing Internet number resources in the US, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean. The emerging IPv4 address transfer market and increasing demand have resulted in more attempts to obtain IPv4 addresses fraudulently. This is the first arbitration ever brought under an ARIN Registration Services Agreement, and related proceedings in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. ARIN was able to prove an intricate scheme to fraudulently obtained resources that included many falsely notarized officer attestations sent to ARIN.

Hooraaay!

[Narcocide]

Does this mean we're not out of IPv4 addresses anymore? Death to IPv6!!

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[kurkosdr]

We have already run out of IPv4 addresses. In the same way the city centre of London has run out of buildable land. IPv4 addresses can only be bought from an existing owner. BTW I still can't understand why clients need a real IPv4 address. If your site can't handle IPv6 clients, it's your problem. As long as people can get on-demand access to IPv4, what's the problem?

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[thegarbz]

BTW I still can't understand why clients need a real IPv4 address. If your site can't handle IPv6 clients, it's your problem.

Clients haven't had "real IPv4" addresses in a while many thanks to CG-NAT devices. As to why *some* clients still need it, because people may not have the choice in how they access the internet.

I don't get IPv6 addresses from a Hotel or from an airport hotspot. Should I give up on the idea of running a cloud host on my home network as a result?

Creating demand is one thing, artificially breaking the internet to create demand will only create one kind of demand: the demand to revert the changes you made whic

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[bn-7bc]

Soory this is only a /12 and i doubt it is a single block, even with the rirs realy restrictive policies that will not last long. Ipv4 is exhausted unlesss we want giant cg nats and we don’t. I know ipv6 is nor easy to get used to but the train has left the station at this point we just have to

But I want to know

[Grand Facade]

Who was the perp?

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[marcle]

RTFA

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[yusing]

"UPDATE May 15, 2019: "Charleston Man and Business Indicted in Federal Court in Over $9M Fraud" – United States Department of Justice issues a statement annoucing Amir Golestan, 36, of Charleston, and Micfo, LLC, were charged in federal court in a twenty-count indictment. The indictment charges twenty counts of wire fraud, with each count punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment. "

For anyone who wants to know how but not RTFA

[Anonymous Coward]

The guy created or bought companies for the sole purpose of getting IPv4 address allocations from ARIN and sell the addresses for money. To make the companies look legitimate, he created web sites for them and posed as several different people. Per ARIN's rules, organizations need to demonstrate eligibility to receive allocations. Falsely claiming eligibility is of course fraud.

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[bn-7bc]

Well I do nit agree, certainly som decisions about ipvd can be debared, like the fact that the last 64 bits of the address isset aside for interface id, I know there are reasons for doing so but still when are you realy ever going to have 2^64 devices in a single layer 2 domain and would you ever wan to? The rest of ipv6 is seams solid enough, no ip level checksum, no hop by hop fragmentation and a minimum mtu that is a bit more generous than before. I think it is a bit to easy to forget that IPv6 is way m

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[bn-7bc]

Im not going to say it will never happen but I’m rather certain it will be at least 4 decades till that time if not more

ownership vs lease

[shentino]

The problem is that IPs are supposed to be a public resource, but companies that got them in the times of plenty are now hoarding them as windfall gold mines and trying to milk them for every last dollar they can.

The fact that ARIN had to go to court sealed our doom, because ARIN should have been able to revoke them unilaterally for non-usage.

If ARIN and other registries were able to revoke addresses for nonuse we wouldn't be in this bind.

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[Dagger2]

No, that's not the problem. The problem is that there's only 4 billion v4 addresses, whereas there are more like 20+ billion devices to number at the moment (estimated to rise to 100+ billion in less than a decade, and I doubt that growth will stop there).

v4 is too small. It doesn't matter how much shuffling and slicing and dicing and rearranging you do to it; it's still going to be too small.