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Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design by fanf2 on Monday August 14, 2023 @12:24PM (#37122902)
There are auctions for IPv4 space, though they did not really become a thing until after the RIRs ran out of IPv4 blocks. The price per address is about $50.
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Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design by schoen on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @01:22PM (#37136681)
Yes, and hopefully we can use that kind of mechanism to allocate 240/4 in a way that achieves very high utilization.
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