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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by eganist on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:11AM (#18407227)
Considering GE's downward spiral (www.google.com/search?q=nyse:ge), I wonder if Amazon managed to get a good deal out of it or if GE managed to actually extract some value out of this sale.

I can't imagine why sales and values of IP blocks would be publicly tracked (beyond just IP blocks trading hands), but is anyone aware of the sale price?

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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by matt_lo on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:12AM (#18407236)
Both. IPs should appreciate in value because of the limited allocations.
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by pbhjpbhj on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:32AM (#18407429)
Won't widescale addition of IPv6 crash the price? It's coming any minute now!
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by andyidsinga on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:41AM (#18407541)
I has similar thoughts about the price of ipv4 addrs going down.

so , some smart finance people at GE may have calculated that now is a good time to put them on the market vs wait.

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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by StavrosK on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:56AM (#18407675)
And some smart finance people at Amazon may have calculated that now is a good time to buy them and wait.
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by andyidsinga on Thursday November 08, 2018 @12:06PM (#18407775)
I'm sure they've been out hounding the owners for quite some time :)
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by softawre on Thursday November 08, 2018 @01:45PM (#18408745)
So what you're saying is this is good for bitcoin?
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by iamgopal on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:15AM (#18407267)
Amazon should buy GE.
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by briffle on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:17AM (#18407297)
Order a locomotive, or 5MW Wind Generator with free 2 day shipping with your prime membership..
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by anticensor on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:55AM (#18407673)
Fine print would say free locomotive offer only applies to 1435mm territories.
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by anticensor on Sunday November 11, 2018 @03:51PM (#18428512)
Aaaand, your locomotive will not move unless your CBTC reports to Alexa network, enabling precise location tracking of these trains
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by Foobar8568 on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:35AM (#18407474)
I would rather have my nuclear plant to power my crypto farm. :o
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by ccozan on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:41AM (#18407534)
Better dig gold, according to the last news.
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by solarkraft on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:17AM (#18407291)
They wouldn't get all that much out of that, I think. It'd also be a lot of work.
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by vetinari on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:34AM (#18407456)
They would get the expertise to build their own dams to power datacentres ;).
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by ConcernedCoder on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:35AM (#18407463)
no
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