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Re:AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B by fanf2 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:52PM (#37550597)
Possibly. It might also have been a bit of a panic because RIPE ran out of IPv4 addresses around that time and it was unclear back then how liquid the transfer market would be.
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Re:AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B by p1mrx on Sunday September 17, 2023 @08:21PM (#37550764)
RIPE ran out in 2012, just after APNIC in 2011.

RIPE had a policy to extremely rate limit allocations from their last /8, which is how they were able to continue allocating for an extra 7 years. The other RIRs had no such policy.

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