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Markets For IPv4 Addresses Emerging

Posted by Soulskill on from the former-owner-only-pinged-it-on-sundays dept.

netbuzz writes "An active marketplace for buying and selling IPv4 addresses is materializing, and policymakers are clarifying the rules associated with how network operators can monetize this increasingly scarce resource. At least four websites are serving as brokers for organizations that want to sell or lease IPv4 address space. The activity comes in the wake of Nortel's recent sale of 666,624 IPv4 addresses to Microsoft for $7.5 million, or $11.25 per address."

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  1. legacy blocks by jcurran · · Score: 5, Informative

    Incorrect. Blocks allocated prior to ARIN are still maintained in the ARIN database accordingly to community policies. This includes processing contract, updates, being reclaimed, etc.
    /John
    John Curran President and CEO
    ARIN