IPv4 Address Market Takes Off

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As the available supply of IPv4 addresses dwindles, the market for these virtual commodities is heating up.  In recent months, the pace of the address transfers has greatly accelerated as evidenced by RIPE’s table of IPv4 transfers, as well as the increasing number of IPv4 brokers facilitating the exchange of IPv4 address space.  However, the transfer of IPv4 address space isn’t always problem-free and, in this blog, we’ll review this new trend and some of the issues that can arise.

Buying and selling IPv4

In 2011, when Microsoft paid $7.5 million for 666,624 IPv4 addresses as part of the Nortel bankruptcy, observers wondered whether this development would usher in the era of the commercial sale of IPv4 address space.  As statistics from European registrar RIPE show, the market may have had a slow start, but we’re in that new era now.

RIPE’s table of transfers of provider independent IPv4 address clearly shows a rapidly increasing rate of transfers of IPv4 address blocks and unique IPv4 addresses.  The following two graphs illustrate the uptick in recent months of address space movement.  February 2015 saw that most organizational transfers (373), while November 2014 saw the Continue reading

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