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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by formercoder on Monday November 25, 2019 @01:42PM (#21631325)
Indeed, until now there has been no financial incentive for those companies to sell the IPs. At a certain point demand and willingness to pay rise making sellers interested in selling. Or maybe IPv6 will happen instead. The problem is IPv6 requires a lot of very complex inventive alignment, whereas an IPv4 market will just result in a well understood price/scarcity relationship.
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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by theandrewbailey on Monday November 25, 2019 @02:30PM (#21631822)
The going rate for an IPv4 address is at least $10 each. Selling a /8 block would be a nice $160 million profit.
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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by CountSessine on Monday November 25, 2019 @03:12PM (#21632267)
Ouch! That makes Stanford's voluntary surrender of their /8 block back in 2004 extraordinarily expensive! Think about how many scholarships that could have paid for!
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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by theandrewbailey on Monday November 25, 2019 @03:25PM (#21632399)
That price is based on what Microsoft paid for Nortel's block in 2011.[0] I think there was another purchase of IP addresses since (by Amazon, maybe), but I'm not able to locate a price.

[0] https://www.networkworld.com/article/2228854/microsoft-pays-...

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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by AstroJetson on Monday November 25, 2019 @09:02PM (#21635034)
DuPont sold off their 52.a.b.c to Microsoft and Amazon 5 years ago.
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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by o-__-o on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:17PM (#21633938)
I've been sitting on a /23 for almost 10 years for this day. Who wants to lease my block
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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by exikyut on Monday November 25, 2019 @09:28PM (#21635160)
First reaction (after looking up that this is 8 million addresses): wow, nice!

Second reaction (after the "$10/IP" part clicked): oooh, this person is going to have a lot of money soon o.o

But you don't have any contact info in your bio!

(I'm in no position to seriously respond - I'd only want one or two addresses to play with)

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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by tialaramex on Monday November 25, 2019 @09:45PM (#21635227)
Er no, a /23 means they control the last 32-23 = 9 bits, so that's 512 addresses. So /if/ they sold that for $10 per address which is plausible that would be about $5000.
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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by exikyut on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @05:18AM (#21637007)
._.

Thanks.

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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by kitteh on Monday November 25, 2019 @05:05PM (#21633325)
It's well over 10 today.
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