Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois

Re:Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois by flounder3 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @03:01AM (#21977993)

I appreciate the gesture, but what's to keep them from moving their scraper to a third-party cloud provider, or sales folks using a VPN?

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Re:Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois by floatingatoll on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:04AM (#21978860)

Removing “We didn’t know better” as a plausible excuse is sometimes sufficient to stop abuse. Nothing prevents Cogent from circumventing, but if they do so, that will likely be interpreted as willful violation if they are taken to court by ARIN, who is prepared to do so.

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Re:Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois by gruez on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @11:39AM (#21981574)

How does this square with the recent court ruling that linkedin scraping is legal? After all, it's all public data, and I have no doubt that linkedin tried to IP block the scrapers.

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Re:Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois by floatingatoll on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @12:01PM (#21981831)

Unknown, since no court has ruled one way or the other in the ARIN matter.

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Re:Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois by moltar on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @03:05AM (#21978012)

Nothing. And I think they address that at the end of the message.

But hopefully this will be noticed by the higher ups and they’ll take sone action.

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Re:Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois by dylz on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:02AM (#21978532)

US corp, legal reasons.

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