In reply to a post by Oliver341:

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Are you suggesting that these IP addresses are/were BT Global Services USA branch owned?

I was under the impression they were obtained from Infonet, a Californian company. And yes, it's registered with ARIN not RIPE:

https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-146-200-0-0-1/pf...

So why haven't BT updated the registration details with ARIN?

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

So why haven't BT updated the registration details with ARIN?

Good question, especially as Bob Pullen admitted the whois data is a "mish-mash" in August 2014.

Updated it to what?

Infonet Services Corporation is still an active/legal company and the owner of the block of addresses.

I don't believe the block can be transferred between RIRs.

You have to wonder what they do all day instead of sorting out the network.

In reply to a post by AndyHCZ:

Updated it to what?

Infonet Services Corporation is still an active/legal company and the owner of the block of addresses.

I don't believe the block can be transferred between RIRs.

I thought the block is being used by Plusnet? Updating it to say Plusnet would be the obvious choice.

This is what it says already. That fact that ownership is listed as Infonet, is largely irrelevant.

The problem is getting geolocation services to update their databases with the correct information from what is listed on ARIN.

In reply to a post by AndyHCZ:

This is what it says already. That fact that ownership is listed as Infonet, is largely irrelevant.

The name is PLUSNET1 but this could be anything and is irrelevant.

The problem is that the organization is shown as INFONET Services Corporation (INFO).

Edited by deleted (Sun 10-Jan-16 15:36:43)

Despite what Plusnet might say, I doubt having "Country: US" in the IP whois is helpful for geo-location issues.

Post deleted by BatBoy

Not correct - the Direct Assignment and allocation details are what geolocation services use.

In most examples given by Bob Pullen, websites have used out of date geolocation databases and once updated, issues have been resolved.