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RIPE 71 IPv4 Report

Published on November 30th, 2015

There were three presentations of interest to me at the RIPE 71 meeting in Bucharest, Romania and some interesting information from the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) updates. The first presentation was by Geoff Huston, the Chief Scientist at APNIC. He compared the IPv6 failure rate to the IPv4 failure rate. In general both are improving over...

IPv4 Transfer Activity Since ARIN Run Out

Published on November 6th, 2015

I thought it would be interesting to look at what is happening with IPv4 Transfer Activity since the ARIN run out. In late June, ARIN announced it would not be able to fill a request for IPv4 addresses, and for all intents and purposes, this was the start of ARIN run out. Chart 1. Total #...

IPv4 Market Group Quoted by BBC on IPv4 Price Expectations

Published on September 28th, 2015

In its enlightening article on the ARIN IPv4 run out, the BBC has quoted IPv4 Market Group’s view on IPv4 price expectations. IPv4 Market Group is quoted as saying: “The ARIN depletion might spark a significant rise in prices, suggests research by the IPv4 Market Group which acts as a broker for firms with addresses...

IPv4 Pricing in a Post ARIN Runout World

Published on August 21st, 2015

IPv4 prices were at an all-time low through the first half of 2015, and then, with the ARIN runout upon us, they spiked upwards. Has the bottom of the IPv4 market occurred, and where prices will go from here? Let’s start at the beginning. IPv4 Market Group has facilitated over 150 IPv4 transfers through the...

Large ARIN IPv4 Transfers

Published on May 25th, 2015

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, IPv4 Market Group discussed Merck’s transfers of IPs to Amazon Web Services with the author, Robert McMillan. This data is readily available in the ARIN transfer registry. Other large transfers outlined in this registry include the following: These large block transfers will continue as ARIN runout occurs.

The IPv4 Address Resale Market

Published on May 4th, 2015

The IPv4 Address Resale Market IPv4 Market Group, Inter-Op Interview Sandra Brown and Sean Michael Kerner, April 30, 2015 Sandra: We are a broker of IPv4 transfers, and we do transfers globally in ARIN, APNIC, and RIPE regions. We transfer from sellers, which are companies that have excess IPv4 addresses, to buyers, which are companies...

Update on IPv4 Depletion from ARIN 35

Published on April 13th, 2015

At Day One of ARIN 35 in San Francisco, Leslie Nobile of ARIN presented an ARIN Update on IPv4 Depletion. ARIN has no /8, /9, /10’s left; They expect to deplete to only /16’s available shortly; ARIN will quickly get to only /24’s available as the current inventory is at .24 /8 equivalent.; ~19 /16...

The APNIC Transfer Market

Published on March 9th, 2015

In general APNIC’s market is less robust than expected, with 3.75 million IPv4 addresses transferred in 2014, versus almost 10 million in RIPE region. Why is there this difference? It would seem the major region is the economies. When one examines the number of IPs transferred by country, one sees haves versus the have-nots. ...

IPv4 Address Lifespan

Published on November 26th, 2014

Subtitle: “Should I Sell my IPv4 addresses Now?” and “Should I Stockpile IPv4 Addresses?” Everyone wants a crystal ball to know the IPv4 address lifespan. They want to know if they will need more IPv4 addresses, and if so, should they buy them now or can they wait. If I create a simple model of...

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...