RE: Independent space from ARIN [wandering further OT]

[Mike Damm <MikeD () irwinresearch com>]

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From: Brandon Ross [mailto:bross () sockeye com] 
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 1:51 PM
To: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Cc: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: Independent space from ARIN 

> > Overbuilding office space in San Francisco doesn't *usually* cause real
> > estate issues in Tokyo.
>
> I must be missing your point because I don't see how that's relevant.
> Think of the 69/8 space as being out in the middle of nowhere (due to the
> bogon filters).  It's cheap land but it comes with it's problems.  If you
> invest in it, you can increase it's value, if you don't want to, buy the
> more expensive downtown property.

And everything goes the way of the domain market. You mistype a .3 as a .4
and end up at some porn site! Or worse yet, Silicon Valley startups are
building business models around peddling vanity IPs such as 69.69.69.69 and
4.2.2.4 on eBay.

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Michael Damm, MIS Department, Irwin Research & Development
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