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The going rate for an IPv4 address is at least $10 each. Selling a /8 block would be a nice $160 million profit.
by theandrewbailey 7y ago
The going rate for an IPv4 address is at least $10 each. Selling a /8 block would be a nice $160 million profit.
- CountSessine 7y agoOuch! That makes Stanford's voluntary surrender of their /8 block back in 2004 extraordinarily expensive! Think about how many scholarships that could have paid for!
- theandrewbailey 7y agoThat price is based on what Microsoft paid for Nortel's block in 2011.[0] I think there was another purchase of IP addresses since (by Amazon, maybe), but I'm not able to locate a price. [0] https://www.networkworld.com/article/2228854/microsoft-pays-nortel--7-5-million-for-ipv4-addresses.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/2228854/microsoft-pays-...
- AstroJetson 7y agoDuPont sold off their 52.a.b.c to Microsoft and Amazon 5 years ago.
- kitteh 7y agoIt's well over 10 today.
- o-__-o 7y agoI've been sitting on a /23 for almost 10 years for this day. Who wants to lease my block
- exikyut 7y agoFirst reaction (after looking up that this is 8 million addresses): wow, nice! Second reaction (after the "$10/IP" part clicked): oooh, this person is going to have a lot of money soon o.o But you don't have any contact info in your bio! (I'm in no position to seriously respond - I'd only want one or two addresses to play with)
- tialaramex 7y agoEr no, a /23 means they control the last 32-23 = 9 bits, so that's 512 addresses. So /if/ they sold that for $10 per address which is plausible that would be about $5000.
- exikyut 7y ago._. Thanks.