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What counts as “not used”? If I set up some minimal websites hosting one ape picture per IP address, is that used? Do the registries have a concept of frivolous
by jl6 5y ago
What counts as “not used”? If I set up some minimal websites hosting one ape picture per IP address, is that used? Do the registries have a concept of frivolous use?
- zekica 5y agoIt's counted as used if it is advertised via BGP.
- ozim 5y agoI don't know. But even setting one ape per IP address is still quite hands on and involved investment, you have to know how to do it or you have to hire and pay someone who knows how to do it. Then you still have some operation cost as you probably cannot assign whole IP block to a single server and keeping server running still costs money. So I was only think about situation where you simply buy like /24 block and keep it.
- technothrasher 5y agoI’ve got a /24 that hasn’t had any use at all since about 1998, and in fact is registered to a company that no longer exists, with me as the only point of contact. Nobody has ever come for it. I wouldn’t be overly upset if they did, as I don’t have any use for it, but I’ve never felt like proactively giving it up either.
- hansel_der 5y agoi feel like this is the prime example of why only around 200mio ipv4 addresses are seen on the internet (out of the possible 4b) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3194.html http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3194.html