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This reminded me of the fact that all of 17.0.0.0/8 was assigned to Apple.

• xmprt 6y ago
  That's crazy. So Apple owns 1/256 of all IP Addresses?
  • bigdict 6y ago
    Yes, and a few other companies/agencies enjoy the same privilege: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...
    • xmprt 6y ago
      AT&T and Apple make sense but why is Ford on that list. And how did Comcast get theirs in 2005? I guess if you just ask very nicely, anything can happen.
  • xenadu02 6y ago
    Remember: ARPANet was originally just a DOD research project to connect some universities and military sites. Back when it was opened to the public you could get a .com domain name for free just by asking. Same deal with IP addresses: in the very early days you just had to ask and you could have your own /8 (assuming you were a university, medium-to-large company, or government entity). There has never been any point in clawing back the large class A assignments. If that were done it wouldn't even give us an extra year of IPv4 address assignments before we exhaust the pool again... not that there is any legal mechanism to take them back anyway. The solution is IPv6. Despite the slow rollout it is finally happening now that even the regional RIRs have started to run out of addresses.
• vladoh 6y ago
  I find it even more surprising that Ford owns 19.0.0.0/8.