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Once you own outright a block of IP4 addresses, is there a recurring charge to allow you to keep it? And who, if anyone, gets paid.
by litoE 5y ago
Once you own outright a block of IP4 addresses, is there a recurring charge to allow you to keep it? And who, if anyone, gets paid.
- mike_d 5y agoOnly 8 organizations actually "own" IP addresses (AT&T, Apple, Ford, Cogent, Prudential Insurance, USPS, Comcast, US DoD). Almost all of IPv4 is allocated by IANA to Regional Internet Registries that in turn allocate them to customers like Google and Verizon. You pay yearly maintenance fees to keep the addresses assigned to you.