666,624 is kind of odd number, isn't it? That comes out to a /13,/15,/19,/21 and a /22.
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > > http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/3/23/4778509.html > > Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million > > by Milton Mueller on Wed 23 Mar 2011 10:30 PM EDT | Permanent Link | > ShareThis > > Wake up call for our friends in the Regional Internet Registries. Nortel, the > Canadian telecommunications equipment manufacturer that filed for bankruptcy > protection in 2009, has succeeded in making its legacy IPv4 address block an > asset that can be sold to generate money for its creditors. The March 23 > edition of the Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Report has reported that Nortel's > block of 666,624 IPv4's was sold for $7.5 million - a price of $11.25 per IP > address. The buyer of the addresses was Microsoft. More information is in its > filing in a Delware bankruptcy court. Now the interesting question becomes, > does the price of IPv4s go up or down from here? As the realities of dual > stack sink in, I'm betting...up. > >
