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IPv4 Price Trends and Insights

Figure 1. IPv4 prices have continued to rise in 2018. As shown in Figure 1, the price increases have been almost linear in nature from 2015 to the present. As of the beginning of March 2019, prices were at a minimum of $20 USD for block sizes of a /16 to a /21. To determine...
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IPv4 Transfer Market Volumes

We thought we would take a look at IPv4 transfer volume at the mid-year point of 2018.  We found that transfers continue to be significant across the three main regions, especially RIPE and ARIN.  RIPE continues to have the highest number of IPv4 transfers, as shown in the chart below. ARIN has less than half...
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IPv4 Large Block Transfers

In our February 2018 blog we looked at the large spike in IPv4 transfer volume in the 4th quarter of 2017.  It became clear that the spike was mostly due to a high number of large block transfers.  To dive into this deeper, we extracted data from the RIPE, ARIN and APNIC transfer logs to...
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IPv4 Transfer Markets Soar in 4th Quarter 2017

The IPv4 transfer market experienced a huge spike in the last quarter of 2017.  By the end of September (Q1 to Q3) a total of 23.0 million IPs had been transferred.  The final number of IPs transferred in 2017 equaled 65.5 million, which means there were 42.5 million IPs transferred in the fourth quarter alone,...
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Global IPv4 Transfers Declining

It has been a few months since we have commented on IPv4 transfer trends and we thought it would be interesting to determine, after transfers fell between 2015 and 2016, whether the reduction in transfers continued.  So, we ran the numbers. Noting that the 2017 data is for 9 months, and not a full year,...
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