This was (indirectly) on HN yesterday... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14150854
I'm seeing numbers between $10-$20 per IP, but this is also probably a bulk sale so there might be a discount... Say +/- $250 million?
Perfect time to sell them off as the IPv4 shortage tightens and IPv6 hasn't reached critical mass yet.
> but this is also probably a bulk sale so there might be a discount
I was thinking the opposite - isn't the block (or a sub-block) worth more in bulk than its constituent addresses?
In the same way that a complete collection of N Foobars has more value to a Foobar collector than N times the average value of a collectable Foobar.
Is there any way that I could buy an IP from the MIT address block? As a memento.
Microsoft charges $0.004/h for a static IP. That's $35 annually and $280M/year for 8 million addresses. So perhaps the sale will give MIT a billion?
They're selling the addresses, not renting them.
based on [1], prices seem to hover around 10-15$/ip. So, 80 million maybe?
Smart man.
Anyone got a guess as to how much money this sale might raise?