April 12, 2024 The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is hosting their 53rd Public Policy and Members Meeting in Bridgetown, Barbados from April 14th 2024 – April 17th 2024. During this meeting, members of the ARIN community will discuss pending policy proposals, the state of the ARIN waitlist, the state of ARIN’s financial status and more. The proposals up for discussion during ARIN 53... Source ..read more

Strong interest in small blocks (/20-/24) has kept prices steady. Medium blocks (/17-/19) were slow in March, so sellers set more aggressive pricing. As predicted, we’re seeing /16 prices pull back slightly while /17 price come up a bit, closing the irrational gap between them. Source ..read more

by IPv4.Global Staff Broadly speaking, “debt” is the current obligation to pay a creditor, normally to compensate for an earlier benefit of some kind. In IT, a “technical debt” refers to the obligation to re-work or expand a system due to an earlier decision to deploy a solution with (usually) only short-term or limited-scope capacity. In other words, a technical debt results from an immediate... Source ..read more

by Leo Vegoda The IPv4 market has created serious interest in the protocol far beyond the natural confines of networking professionals. These assets are worth a lot. Marketplaces, IPv4.Global’s especially, have grown to be large centers of asset transfer by buyers and sellers of IPv4 addresses. IPv4.Global has helped transfer over $1 billion in IPv4 blocks. But what happened to earlier versions of... Source ..read more

by IPv4.Global Staff Anyone buying or selling IPv4 address space has a bigger market when they consider an inter-region transfer. It has been exercised enough that there are strong processes in place. An inter-region transfer is very similar to an intra-region transfer. In fact, there were about 2,000 IPv4 transfers in the European region in 2022. But since inter-region transfers became possible... Source ..read more

by Peter Tobey Merger and acquisition discovery processes vary in both design and execution. Often the transaction primarily is focused on key assets that are important to the acquiring entity. Frequently, other assets are earmarked for liquidation post-transaction. But a third category exists: the overlooked value buried – or otherwise unrecognized – in the sea of sometimes-visible... Source ..read more

Prices for most blocks have stabilized. There is some indication that this is a good time to buy /16 and larger blocks. Source ..read more

by IPv4.Global Staff There are twice as many people on our planet as IPv4 addresses. Plus, each person with internet access is almost certain to use multiple IPv4 addresses. For instance, an address for a home connection, one for an office connection, and one for a mobile data service. Generally, for devices to connect they must do so using unique addresses. While the same address can be used... Source ..read more

February 22, 2024 APNIC 57 (APRICOT 2024) is being held in Bangkok, Thailand, this year from February 21st to March 1st. This year there are four new policy proposals up for community discussion. prop-154 (Resizing of IPv4 assignment for the IXPs) – Current policy allows new IXPs to receive /23 (IPv4) and /48 (IPv6) max. Usually APNIC assigns one /24, but after analyzing PeeringDB... Source ..read more

Prices remained very consistent from December to January, suggesting that the market has found a new equilibrium. There is still a lot of variation—similar blocks may trade for very different prices—but the average has held steady. Source ..read more