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Scam-Linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out
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."
That's nothing. I got an offer this morning of $700B, with little oversight and no accountability. All I have to do is prove that I recklessly lost hundreds of billions of investor capital.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
I for one welcome this chance for other spam vendors to engage in a little competition. It will be a wholly new playing field if/when Intercage re-emerges online, after previously holding a dominant position. Hopefully the free-market nature of Internet business will only encourage the production of more quality spam. The recipients of spam can only benefit from this new development.
What's the value of information that you don't know?
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.