<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 07/08/2011, at 5:16 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>In message <CA642629.43D9B%skeeve@eintellego.net>, Skeeve Stevens writes:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The sort of thing starting to happen.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">...Skeeve<br></blockquote><br>I will be interesting to see what ARIN does as I believe that now that<br>the addresses have been seperated from the rest of the assets they are<br>contractually bound to return them to ARIN.<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Yup, that seems to be the case<div><br></div><div>From <a href="https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#eight">https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#eight</a></div><div>-----</div><div>8.2. Mergers and Acquisitions<br><br>ARIN will consider requests for the transfer of number resources in the case of mergers and acquisitions upon receipt of evidence that the new entity has acquired assets that used the transferred resources from the current registrant. ARIN will maintain an up-to-date list of acceptable types of documentation.<br><br>In the event that number resources of the combined organizations are no longer justified under ARIN policy at the time ARIN becomes aware of the transaction, through a transfer request or otherwise, ARIN will work with the resource holder(s) to return, aggregate, or reclaim resources as appropriate via the processes outlined in current ARIN policy (for example, sections 4.6, 4.7, or 12 of the NRPM).</div><div>----</div><div><br></div><div>So looks like they'd need to buy all servers/routers/etc that were using the IP's also...</div><div><br></div><div>--DG</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Damien Gardner Jnr</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net">rendrag@rendrag.net</a> - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.rendrag.net/">http://www.rendrag.net/</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">--</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">We rode on the winds of the rising storm,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> We ran to the sounds of thunder.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">We danced among the lightning bolts,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> and tore the world asunder</span></div></body></html>