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How does a company like Cloudflare come to acquire a "vanity" IP address like that? Are they just sold privately to high bidders?
by artursapek 9y ago
How does a company like Cloudflare come to acquire a "vanity" IP address like that? Are they just sold privately to high bidders?
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- nandhp 9y agoIt appears APNIC still owns the IP address, described as "APNIC and Cloudflare DNS Resolver project, Routed globally by AS13335/Cloudflare, Research prefix for APNIC Labs". https://wq.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl?searchtext=1.1.1.1 https://wq.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl?searchtext=1.1.1.1
- diggan 9y agoIt worked like this (according to the submitted website archive): > Cloudflare had the network. APNIC had the IP address (1.1.1.1). Both of us were motivated by a mission to help build a better Internet. You can read more about each organization’s motivations on our respective posts: Cloudflare Blog / APNIC Blog. The blog post links just links to the blog themselves, not actually to a post, so this submission seems premature.