DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by TheSwordsman on Thursday March 06, 2014 @02:37PM (#7356051)

MIPSpace is stupid if they think you can get SWIP from DO. This is not DO's policy, but the RIR. I seem to remember that for ARIN you need a /30 or larger of consecutive IP address space to qualify for SWIP. This may even be a /28.

So while DO is saying no, I'm wondering if it's because they don't offer the space required to SWIP the ranges. In addition to not offering the size, it would incur additional administrative overhead.

Can't blame them.

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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by Dylan16807 on Thursday March 06, 2014 @05:01PM (#7356931)

According to https://www.arin.net/resources/request/reassignments.html it's actually mandatory to provide whois tracking for assignments /29 or shorter prefix, and optional for /30 or longer prefix. I can't find any reason they wouldn't be able to provide it if they wanted to.

Edit: definitely possible http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/12406/which-providers-provi...

So you shouldn't call MIPSpace stupid, thanks.

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