I ran into an interesting situation today. We have some very zealous moderators who see zombies everywhere. Today, one of the most zealous ones freaked out over a registration which I approved. Here' s the details.

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I approved three registrations earlier today, but they were all in the US and either directly at or close to the IP location.

The one you are referring to is:


MikeOwen #51910
User
MikeOwen
[email protected] Reg Date: Tue Nov 04 2025 03:36 PM
Last Post: -
Last Login: Tue Nov 04 2025 03:36 PM
Reg IP: 77.111.117.87
Last IP:

I don’t know what UBB uses to identify the IPs, but here’s what they said it was:

Tue Nov 04 2025 03:36 PM
77.111.117.87
AT&T Enterprises, LLC (Broadband)
Chicago, IL US (Estimated)
United States, North America

But whois says it’s;

inetnum: 77.111.117.0 - 77.111.117.255
netname: NET-77-111-117-0-24
country: US
admin-c: TA8706-RIPE
tech-c: TA8706-RIPE
abuse-c: ACRO45564-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: interlir-mnt
created: 2024-06-11T07:10:18Z
last-modified: 2024-08-09T09:11:32Z
source: RIPE
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This is what Grok said.

My question:
Who is RELCOMGROUP-EXT-MNT?
I'm trying to figure out who owns this IP: 77.111.117.87
According to one source, it's AT&T, but according to a different source it in the RIPE whois area and theRELCOMGROUP is the registrant.

Grok’s answer:

RELCOMGROUP-EXT-MNT is a RIPE NCC maintainer for Relcom Group, a Russian IT/hosting firm (AS35112).

IP 77.111.117.87: In 77.111.117.0/24 (US, Virginia), ASSIGNED PA via InterLIR; routed through AS7018 (AT&T) and AS401838 (Uni Broadband LLC). No Relcom Group link.

So it does appear to be AT&T related.
So, what does UBB use for geolocation of IPs? And how do we know that any of the whois providers are up to date with the latest info?

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