Several Internet transit providers have banded together to ban a fellow transit provider that has carried out at least 130 Internet route (BGP) hijacks in the past few years. Bitcanal appears to have been the biggest BGP hijack offender in recent years, earning the nickname of “BGP hijacks factory”” Most of these companies have stopped collaborating with the Portuguese ISP after a June 25 message posted on the NANOG (North American Network Operators’ Group) mailing list. The list currently includes DE-CIX (Frankfurt
Source: Spain)”

