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Scam-Linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out

Posted by timothy on from the don't-let-the-door-hit-you-on-the-way-out dept.

alphadogg writes with this excerpt from Network World: "The lifeline linking notorious service provider Intercage to the rest of the Internet has been severed. Intercage, which has also done business under the name Atrivo, was knocked offline late Saturday night when the last upstream provider connecting it to the Internet's backbone, Pacific Internet Exchange, terminated Intercage's service. Intercage president Emil Kacperski said Pacific did not tell him why his company had been knocked offline, but he believes it was in response to pressure from Spamhaus, a volunteer-run antispam group, which has been highly critical of Intercage's business practices."

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  1. Re:So, a drop of spam-traffic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    For a couple of hours?

    For a day. They found a new upstream now, though, Unitedlayer, Inc., who obviously didn't pay any attention to the news (or just decided to ignore it):

    http://cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS27595

                27595 INTERCAGE - InterCage, Inc.

                    Adjacency: 1 Upstream: 1 Downstream: 0
                    Upstream Adjacent AS list
                        AS23342 UNITEDLAYER - Unitedlayer, Inc.