Dear RIPE NCC members, I’d like to raise the topic of introducing and applying administrative anti-spam measures against RIPE NCC members who deliberately violate Article 4 of the RIPE Database Terms and Conditions. RIPE NCC requires members to publish up-to-date contact email addresses in the RIPE DB. However, these publicly listed addresses are actively harvested and used for spam by IPv4 brokers and address traders, while RIPE NCC does not take any measures to protect members from this type of abuse. This issue has been around since the IPv4 market appeared, and although it’s well known, at some point the RIPE NCC staff chose not to act against members who don’t follow the RIPE Database T&C. My proposal is to freeze transfer operations for members who are repeatedly abusing the RIPE Database. I’d be glad to hear your thoughts and discuss this further. -- Best regards, Sergey Myasoedov
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From: "HostM" <info@hostmaster.lt> Subject: Quick question about IPv4 Date: December 8, 2025 at 04:54:23 EST To: <for-spammers@net-art.cz>
Hello, my apologies if this message has arrived at an inconvenient time.
I wanted to check whether you might be interested in acquiring an IPv4 /24 sub-net registered with RIPE. I also have IPv6 resources and an ASN available, which can be included (for free) if you are interested in the IPv4 block.
The ipv4 sub-net is currently unused and fully clean.
The transfer can be completed securely via an escrow service.
If this could be of interest, please feel free to reply to this email, and we can discuss the next steps in more detail.
Regards, Zydrunas