[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Members and Multiple LIR Accounts - Please Discuss

Am 16.02.2016 um 13:17 schrieb David Treanor:
>>      1. Is the activity of members opening additional LIR accounts a
>>      problem
>>      that must be prevented?
>
> The rapid increase in new account creation seems to indicate that this is being used to abuse the rules. Yes it must be prevented.

+1

I would like to bring to everyones attention that it's obviously already 
possible to create multiple LIRs under the same company:

# wget http://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats/membership/alloclist.txt
# cat alloclist.txt | grep ^[a-z][a-z]. | cut -b 1-6 | uniq -c | sort -rn

   36 uk.ngs
...
   10 ae.hax

Meaning: If you look at 
http://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats/membership/alloclist.txt in your browser 
you'll find that "HAX CONSULTANCY DMCC" (HAX as in hack(s)...) has 
opened 10 LIRs, and "Next Global Services LP" has opened a whopping 36 
LIRs. Each has a /22 of course.

HAX uses a gmail address as their LIR address. :-)
https://www.ripe.net/membership/indices/data/ae.hax201.html

NGS is in control of 36.864 IPs. If they sell every IP at a bargain 
price of 6 EUR per IP they've earned 221.184 EUR. This guys costs were 
72.000 EUR one-time (36 x 2.000 EUR setup fee) and 57.600 EUR for the 
first year (36 x 1.600 EUR) = 129.600 EUR.

221.184 EUR - 129.600 EUR = 91.584 EUR profit made out of thin air. Not bad!

Really, RIPE?

Cheers
Markus