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Possibly. It might also have been a bit of a panic because RIPE ran out of IPv4 addresses around that time and it was unclear back then how liquid the transfer
by fanf2 3y ago
Possibly. It might also have been a bit of a panic because RIPE ran out of IPv4 addresses around that time and it was unclear back then how liquid the transfer market would be.
- p1mrx 3y agoRIPE ran out in 2012, just after APNIC in 2011. RIPE had a policy to extremely rate limit allocations from their last /8, which is how they were able to continue allocating for an extra 7 years. The other RIRs had no such policy.