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Yes. They could sell the IP address to someone else.
by lucasmullens 10y ago
Yes. They could sell the IP address to someone else.
- Domenic_S 10y agoBut... they're selling it to you.
- RussianCow 10y agoI think the point is that there's a reason they charge you for it instead of letting you hold onto it for free.
- jedberg 10y agoIt's more valuable to be in use than to sell it to you. They are very limited on ipv4 space, so the charge is really a penalty for keeping that resource from another customer.
- shiftpgdn 10y agoIPv4 allocation limits are still mostly a scare tactic to get people onto v6. I know dozens of people from my webhosting days with /12 and /16 allotments doing nothing that they pay peanuts for. This isn't a unique scenario.
- AdamN 10y agoThat's not relevant, if I have 10 cars and you need a car ... then all that matters to you is that you need a car, not that I have 10 cars sitting there doing nothing. People sitting on IPv4 addresses don't care but new entrants cannot get new IPv4 addresses since they're all allocated.
- Whitestrake 10y ago> This isn't a unique scenario. And this is exactly why we're running out of publically available IPv4 addresses.
- goblin89 10y agoThey aren’t, unless you have an instance attached to it.
- abiox 10y agoyes.