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Interesting how the IPv4 price has pulled back 30% since early 2022.
by jacob019 2y ago
Interesting how the IPv4 price has pulled back 30% since early 2022.
- gruez 2y agoThat's probably more to do with interest rates than anything else. Cheap money => speculative assets are worth more.
- quink 2y agoProbably also CGNAT, and tunnelling instead of directly exposing your servers.
- cyberax 2y agoThe investment in infrastructure is cyclical. A lot of ISPs started large expansion projects, fueled by the lockdowns in 2020-s that highlighted the inadequate infrastructure. A lot of content companies also acquired additional IPv4 space for servers.
- mike_d 2y agoThat is when Amazon stopped pouring money into buying up as much IPv4 as possible and the market returned to demand based pricing.
- wmf 2y agoIs Amazon not demand? Do they exist outside economics? (Legally they're supposed to use those addresses within a year(?) of buying them, but I won't pretend that anyone would really notice whether that's the case or not.)
- mike_d 2y agoYou know what I mean.
- wmf 2y agoI don't know what you mean. Do you think Amazon was paying very high prices for IPs they don't need? Were they trying to corner the market and create a monopoly?
- chippiewill 2y agoIt's easy for Amazon to artificially use their address space because they can rotate them around customers using dynamic allocations.
- timewizard 2y agoThere is an hourly fee for IPv4s now. There was not before.
- ta1243 2y agoThat's more to do with increasing prices than decreasing demand
- timewizard 2y agoIn the traditional capitalist model, those are the same thing.
- thayne 2y agoOnly in a perfectly efficient market, which is pretty rare in the real world.
- technothrasher 2y ago> but I won't pretend that anyone would really notice I've got a /24 that I obtained back in the Wild West days of the early 1990's, when all you had to do was send an email form and a few minutes later you'd get one assigned. I haven't used it in over 20 years now, but nobody has ever come to take it from me.
- wmf 2y agoYou may be grandfathered under pre-RIR rules and also no one is auditing this stuff.