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!

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-...

DuPont sold off their 52.a.b.c to Microsoft and Amazon 5 years ago.

I've been sitting on a /23 for almost 10 years for this day. Who wants to lease my block

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)

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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Thanks.

It's well over 10 today.