Re: Accidental ARIN Reallocation

[William Herrin via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM Tim Burke via NANOG
<nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> It seems like there are lots of folks that use it for direct downstream customer-facing allocations and are not even 
> utilizing them for dual-stack services as intended. I have seen a number of “low end” web hosting companies (folks 
> that advertise on websites like Low End Box) that do just that, as well as some smaller start up ISPs (including one 
> right in my backyard that doesn’t even bother announcing IPv6).

Hi Tim,

If you know it's 4.10 space (not address space allocated under a
different policy section) and you know they're using it for plain IPv4
or generic dual stack, please file a report at
https://account.arin.net/public/fraud

ARIN takes fraud seriously but they don't have eyes everywhere.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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