[Tfug] Changes to Dakotacom's network

[Adrian]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, you wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:28:30 -0700
> "Adrian" <choprboy@dakotacom.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Just got a notice from Tyler (that went out to all Dakotacom
> > subscribers)that Dakotacom is changing their network this Friday.
> > Dropping several dialups and creating others on different numbers.
> > Seems to be very short notice.
> > 
> > In addition, Dakotacom is changing their nameservers to a new IP
> > range. Did a quick check and it's currently assigned to Time Warner
> > Telecom. Anybody know if Dakotacom is poised to go down the RoadRunner
> > sewer? I thought Dakotacom was doing well, anybody know what's up?
> > Tyler, care to give us a technical explaination?
> > 
> > Adrian
> 
> Adrian-
> 
> Dakotacom is owned by Worldcom right? 

Since when? I thought Dakotacom was owned by one of it's original founders (I've
forgotten her name), who bought it back and turned it around after it had
become a spam factory in the n96/97 time range. Since when does Worldcom own
it? I can't find any such information and the corporation papers say it's a
foreign LLC, thru Edwardsville, Il., the agent is John Ahrar, though that's
dated 1996.

[dig, dig, dig]
Here it is, Pamela Crim owns Dakotacom according to a May 2002 Tucson Citizen
article. It's dropped off the current articles, but you can pull it up thru
Google here:
 http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:aTawScn0h9IC:www.tucsoncitizen.com/business/5_27_02biz_week2.html+dakotacom+Pamela+Crim&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

One of the reasons I chose Dakotacom as an ISP was that I thought it waas
locally owned and operated. Glad I'm not totally incompetent...

> And isn't Time/Warner one of
> Worldcom's biggest customers?  I think WC is TW's ISP, so to speek. 

No, TW 's ISPs are AOL and RR, not WC. TW may get a bunch of physical dialup
lines from WC, but they don't rely on them for ISP services.

> So
> WC probably owns/operates the servers you're 'dig' ing at. 

Doubtful, I queried ARIN. The only connection Dakotacom has to TW I can find is
that one of the outgoing links is TW.  But most traffic seems to go out the
Alter link, not TW.


Adrian
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