Re: dumb question: are any of the RIR's out of IPv4 addresses?

[Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>]

That depends on your definition of grey market, there is an officially
approved ARIN IP block transfer process for people who are buying, via
brokers, discrete /24s and larger.



On Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 4:46 PM Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:

> On 2/16/21 4:18 PM, Fred Baker wrote:
> > You may find this article interesting:
> https://blog.apnic.net/2019/12/13/keep-calm-and-carry-on-the-status-of-ipv4-address-allocation/
> > <
> https://blog.apnic.net/2019/12/13/keep-calm-and-carry-on-the-status-of-ipv4-address-allocation/
> >
> So aside from Afrinic, this is all being done on the gray market?
> Wouldn't you expect that price to follow something like an exponential
> curve as available addresses become more and more scarce and unavailable
> for essentially any price?
>
> Mike
>
>
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > > On Feb 16, 2021, at 3:07 PM, Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:
> > >
> > > 
> > > Basically are there places that you can't get allocations? If so,
> > > what is happening?
> > >
> > > Mike