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Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8"
From: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen () network1 net>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:04:08 -0400 (EDT)
"Top Quality" ? Are they aged longer in special barrels? Polished extra nicely? (Ouch, I think I injured my eyes from the rolling) thanks, -Randy ----- On Mar 13, 2015, at 2:46 PM, Alec Muffett alec.muffett () gmail com wrote:
Perhaps I'm odd, but I find the novelty of this to be amusing: IPv4 Market Group Announces the Availability of a Significant Portfolio ofIPv4 Addresses for Purchase in the RIPE Region:IPv4 Market Group, a global leader in IPv4 sales, has just announced the availability of up to 2.6 million top quality IPv4 addresses for purchase in the RIPE region. The firm’s Executive Vice President for Business Development, Jeff Mehlenbacher, said that the IPv4 blocks are being offered in multiples of /16, with up to 7 contiguous /16’s and 40 /16’s in total IPs....deletia... http://ipv4marketgroup.com/ipv4-addresses-ripe-region/ It's related to this blogpost: https://governmenttechnology.blog.gov.uk/2015/02/19/freeing-up-unused-ip-addresses/ ...and I gather that perhaps - although it's currently being marketed as a bunch of /16s - they might also entertain the possibility of selling it as an entire /8 for a reasonable price. I'm wondering: have we passed the point of peak IPv4 scarcity? Is selling an entire /8 still a viable proposition? Apparently UK Gov may have more than one... - alec -- http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/aboutalecm
Current thread:
- Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Alec Muffett (Mar 13)
- Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Randy Carpenter (Mar 13)
- Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Christian de Larrinaga (Mar 13)
- Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 13)
- Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Ca By (Mar 13)
- Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Christopher Morrow (Mar 13)
- Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Alec Muffett (Mar 13)
- Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Randy Carpenter (Mar 13)