[anti-abuse-wg] On "very" fast IPv6-growing entities

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 12:41:15PM +0000, Daniel Mishayev wrote:
> With entities like this, it appears that they just register large amounts of LIRs in order to gain the IPv6 and IPv4 resources. With the ASN that you linked (PEERLINK LTD) the large amounts of IPs belong to a Russian IP leasing platform.
> 
> As for what it is used for - I wildly assume it will be used for scraping or botting of some kind - just consult cloudflare radar in a few days to have a general idea of the statistics of what it is used for. A large amount of ipv6 proxy companies have popped up recently though never with this much ipv6.
> 
> However, I can comment that PEERLINK was one of our clients and proved themselves to be legally in the clear in terms of ID verification, legal standing and tax.

I hope that RIPE NCC does not accept "scraping or botting of some kind" as a valid
motivation to assign a /29, so - if this was the case - I wonder what they wrote.

Natale M Bianchi
Spamhaus Project