At the ARIN 49 meeting last week in Nashville, we had a great panel discussion about the long road with the transition to IPv6. It was a great discussion from a number of Industry leaders including Vint Cerf and Geoff Huston. Presentation Slides You can view all of the ARIN 49 content here: https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/ARIN49 ..read more

LacNIC announced today that they will start processing InterRIR IPv4 address transfers. LACNIC has been in the process of preparing for this for almost a year after the policy proposal LAC-2019-1: IPv4 Resource Transfer Policy (comprehensive) was ratified in June of 2019. ARIN has announced that its InterRIR transfer policy is compatible with LACNIC’s and ..read more

APNIC in a blog posting announced that a portion of the 43/8 (Class A) IPv4 block will be sold to fund Asia-Pacific Internet development. The 43/8 block was originally allocated to the WIDE (Widely Integrated Distributed Environment) Project in Japan. Now with the IPv4 address market firmly established and this block being underutilized the registrant ..read more

Hilco Streambank has published a set of IPv4 pricing data which shows a section of the IPv4 market. While the IPv4 market is opaque various disclosures have given us a peek into the market. From the $11.25 Microsoft paid in 2011 various data sources have shown the price of an IPv4 address creeping up toward ..read more