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Paying for IPv4 Addresses

Published on October 28th, 2014

IPv4 Market Group is frequently asked how a buyer can pay a seller for IPv4 addresses.  In the early days of IPv4 transfers, in 2011-12, IPv4 transfers were less common than today, and IPv4 transfer participants felt some uncertainty about both the commercial and legal aspects of an IPv4 transaction. Today, with hundreds of transactions...
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ARIN34

Published on October 14th, 2014

I am back from ARIN34 in Baltimore.  The best outcome of ARIN34 was the passing of policy so that the ARIN manual no longer allows for the reclamation of IPv4 addresses, which is a tremendously good thing. The hot debate at ARIN34 was around various forms of policies to lessen the requirements for ARIN IPv4...
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IPv4 Broker Due Diligence

Published on September 9th, 2014

Doing due diligence before you buy IPv4 addresses is a critical activity.  Here are some tips on things to consider: When an IPv4 broker responds to your IPv4 RFQ, you want to ensure the broker has IPv4 addresses to actually fulfill the bid.  Otherwise you may be in for a long delay while the broker...
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Inter-RIR IPv4 Transfers at RIPE68

Published on May 23rd, 2014

RIPE68 held in Warsaw, Poland marked the 25th anniversary of the Réseaux Internet Protocol Européens, the Regional Internet Registry for Europe and the Middle East. It was a well executed meeting with a large crowd of well over 500 attendees and many newcomers. I attended RIPE68 on behalf of IPv4 Market Group and presented the IPv4 Inter-RIR policy...
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2013 IPv4 Trading in Review

Published on January 28th, 2014

Would you believe that I have now been in the IP transfer business for four years? In January of 2010, I was working at Nortel as the Director of Network Engineering, leading the team looking into the monetization of Nortel’s IPv4 assets. This culminated in the sale of nine /16s to Microsoft in the spring...
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Needs Justification on IPv4 Transfers

Published on July 9th, 2013

IPv4 Market Group believes there is no requirement for RIR needs justification of IPv4 transfers.  Since IPv4 Market Group’s inception in May of 2011, we have advocated for removal of needs justification for IPv4 transfers between LIR’s or ISPs.  Our rationale for this is simple:  we believe that when funds are exchanged at a fair...
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Don’t Sign an RSA During Your 8.2 IPv4 Transfer

Published on May 3rd, 2013

As an IPv4 broker, we are often asked by IPv4 owners if they should undertake an 8.2 Merger and Acquisition IPV4 transfer.  I fundamentally agree with the need for an accurate registry.   However, ARIN attempts to have the IPv4 owner sign a Registration Services Agreement (RSA) when a registry entry is brought up to date. Never sign an RSA as...
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