Perhaps I'm odd, but I find the novelty of this to be amusing: IPv4 Market Group Announces the Availability of a Significant Portfolio of > IPv4 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
