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Does account removal also remove the -SIXXS RIR handle?

Carmen Sandiego on Tuesday, 02 May 2017 23:30:46

I couldn't find this in the FAQ, but I'm wondering if removing my account also removes the -SIXXS RIR handle. In case it's not obvious, it has no other use and I'd like it removed.

Does account removal also remove the -SIXXS RIR handle?

Jeroen Massar SixXS Staff

on Wednesday, 03 May 2017 07:02:07

Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:

I couldn't find this in the FAQ, but I'm wondering if removing my account also removes the -SIXXS RIR handle. In case it's not obvious, it has no other use and I'd like it removed.

Note that SixXS is NOT a RIR, as such there is no such thing as a '-SIXXS RIR handle'. You likely just mean "-SIXXS whois person record'. Removing an account marks the handle as deleted, for -SIXXS that means it becomes invisible to the system and that whois.sixxs.net does not show it anymore. For non -SIXXS handles (-RIPE, -ARIN, -AP etc) one would separately need to remove it from that RIR. For RIPE and APNIC prefixes, the related inet6nums will get cleaned up after a month. But per 2017-06-06 all will be gone.

Does account removal also remove the -SIXXS RIR handle?

Carmen Sandiego on Wednesday, 03 May 2017 11:33:15

Jeroen Massar wrote:

But per 2017-06-06 all will be gone.

That answers my question and is as I'd expect it would be. Thanks for both the answer and SixXS in general.

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