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Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by lmm on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @05:59AM (#6132703)
Legally it's an allocation, not ownership. The registry could simply revoke your allocations if it caught you selling them (though whether it would is another question).
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Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by bifrost on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:33PM (#6135883)
Exactly, its more like a lease. You can't actually sell an IP because you don't own them, but you are given a lease/license to use them.

Frankly, the only way to truly transfer an IP block between companies is to have one company buy the other, then the IP addresses can be reallocated to the new owner. You can't just transfer an IP block to another entity according to ARIN's registration agreement.

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Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by 300bps on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @07:18AM (#6132917)
When I owned an ISP in 1996 I paid a larger ISP money to suballocate a range of a couple /24s to me. This happens all the time - look up any random netblock on arin.net.
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