The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by jedberg on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @09:28PM (#21768789)

> The global dearth of available IP addresses has turned them into a commodity wherein each IP can fetch between $15-$25 on the open market.

So a whole class C is only $6,500? Or is there a bonus for a contiguous block?

Even so, my friend owns his own Class C (since 1994), and I doubt he would part with it for a mere $10,000.

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Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by CKN23-ARIN on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:21PM (#21769005)

RIRs only handle transfers of /24s or larger. I suppose it might be possible for a "legacy" pre-RIR address holder to reassign ownership rights of a single address, but I've never seen it happen for anything smaller than a /24. Even if it did happen, the addresses would be unusable on the Internet, since it's common practice to reject announcements of anything smaller than /24.

Your friend (correctly, IMO) values his address block more than the market does. They're regularly selling for $5000-6000 these days.

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