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> David Clark, a Senior Research Scientist at our Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) quickly saw the importance of these addresses and req
by mabbo 10y ago
> David Clark, a Senior Research Scientist at our Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) quickly saw the importance of these addresses and requested an early allocation of them, both to support research and eventually to support all of computing at MIT. We hold a block of 16 million IPv4 addresses.
Smart man.
Anyone got a guess as to how much money this sale might raise?
- mnx 10y agobased on [1], prices seem to hover around 10-15$/ip. So, 80 million maybe? [1]: https://ipv4marketgroup.com/broker-services/buy/ https://ipv4marketgroup.com/broker-services/buy/
- petters 10y agoMicrosoft charges $0.004/h for a static IP. That's $35 annually and $280M/year for 8 million addresses. So perhaps the sale will give MIT a billion?
- chatmasta 10y agoThey're selling the addresses, not renting them.
- matheweis 10y agoThis was (indirectly) on HN yesterday... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14150854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14150854 I'm seeing numbers between $10-$20 per IP, but this is also probably a bulk sale so there might be a discount... Say +/- $250 million? Perfect time to sell them off as the IPv4 shortage tightens and IPv6 hasn't reached critical mass yet.
- OJFord 10y ago> but this is also probably a bulk sale so there might be a discount I was thinking the opposite - isn't the block (or a sub-block) worth more in bulk than its constituent addresses? In the same way that a complete collection of N Foobars has more value to a Foobar collector than N times the average value of a collectable Foobar.
- copperx 10y agoIs there any way that I could buy an IP from the MIT address block? As a memento.
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