IPv4 is depleted: Final five blocks allocated to registries

Re:IPv4 is depleted: Final five blocks allocated to registries by xearl on Thursday February 03, 2011 @11:44AM (#2175393)

Years away? Gosh! Depends a bit on where you want your servers to be located, I guess, but still. For a lot of server hosting customers, prices for additional IPs have already increased steadily over the last few months. But don't take my word for it, here's a bit from a recent APNIC announcement, for example:

"APNIC expects normal allocations to continue for a further three to six months."

(https://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/delegation)

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Re:IPv4 is depleted: Final five blocks allocated to registries by tastybites on Thursday February 03, 2011 @12:50PM (#2175728)

For a lot of server hosting customers, prices for additional IPs have already increased steadily over the last few months

That's just retail markup. If you peer with tier 1 transit providers you can still get IPv4 space for practically nothing.

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Re:IPv4 is depleted: Final five blocks allocated to registries by dpifke on Thursday February 03, 2011 @01:25PM (#2175919)

Practically nothing? Are there tier-1 providers charging for IP space now? I can confirm that neither Level3 nor Global Crossing charge for IP allocations as of a month ago.

(The whole "charging for IP addresses" racket always left a bad taste in my mouth, since it's a public resource for which ISPs aren't paying, other than the overhead of being expected to justify and account for the space they've been allocated.)

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Re:IPv4 is depleted: Final five blocks allocated to registries by cft on Thursday February 03, 2011 @03:18PM (#2176604)

Cogent gave us /22 (1024 IPs) free of charge in December.

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Re:IPv4 is depleted: Final five blocks allocated to registries by Terretta on Friday February 04, 2011 @08:42AM (#2179346)

For those reading along: loaned not gave

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Re:IPv4 is depleted: Final five blocks allocated to registries by cft on Friday February 04, 2011 @03:54PM (#2181172)

True. Applying to ARIN now...

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Re:IPv4 is depleted: Final five blocks allocated to registries by tastybites on Thursday February 03, 2011 @01:33PM (#2175972)

Level 3 doesn't charge us either - what's really funny is some of the second-string ISP's actually pay you to take IP space from them.

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