[AusNOG] Speedtest.net and other 'ISP' lists

[Cameron Murray]

I've had the same issue in the past with a few of our Subnets for Location
and Name and submitted the change to Maxmind has fixed it each time.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au> wrote:

> Hrmm - I'm not sure thats 100% true - doing a check of the IP space on
> there correctly shows ISP as what I want to read. I've submitted a
> correction anyway but we will see what happens.
>
> Also another NOG'er emailed me offlist saying that their own customers
> with their own IP space (so not owned by this person), speedtest.net is
> modifying it to say their network and not the customers, so says to me they
> try to do some other sort of lookup for ISP Name, otherwise Maxmind would
> give the IP Owner's information to Ookla.
>
>
> On 13/08/15 09:07, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
>
> They simply use Maxmind.  You can submit a correction here:
> http://www.maxmind.com/en/correction
>
> They will set it to whatever you want, within reason (i.e. APNIC won't put
> my trading name on my netblocks, but I don't want 'Gardner, Damien' coming
> up in speedtest for customers, so I contacted maxmind, and now it shows the
> ISP as Rendrag Networks :)
>
> On 13 August 2015 at 09:02, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi Noggers,
>>
>>  Recently speedtest.net has been showing one of my vISP's names for
>> 'ISP' under a large amount of my IPv4 space incorrectly.
>>
>>  Not only is it incorrect, it is a bit of a leak to other vISP's and
>> customers when they see the incorrect name on this heavily used website,
>> and start querying it.
>>
>>  The APNIC Whois etc certainly hasn't changed, so I'm wondering about how
>> these sites determine who is the ISP, and if there is a way to update it
>> back to using the APNIC descr field on the blocks whois output?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joe
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