May 14, 2024 by Akeyla Wallace RIPE NCC is hosting their 88th Regional Meeting from May 20, 2024 to May 24, 2024 in Krakow, Poland. Typically, the RIPE community would gather at his event to network, share updates about the networking industry and discuss any recently proposed policies. However, there are no policy proposals currently up for an official discussion. The last policy proposal that... Source ..read more

by Peter Tobey Summary: The difference per IP address between large blocks (/16s) and somewhat smaller ones (/17s – /19s) is considerable. The per IP address differential is likely greater than the integration cost penalty of dealing with multiple small blocks. So, mid-size IPv4 address blocks offer a significant opportunity for buyers. Pricing is primarily influenced by supply and demand. Source ..read more

by Lee Howard IPv4 address prices are at their lowest in three years. At the same time, there are multiple options for leasing IPv4 addresses. So, organizations needing IPv4 addresses have to consider whether buying or leasing makes more sense. Small IPv4 block prices are $33 per address, about $8,500 for a /24. All blocks in the range /24 to /22 have experienced prices at about this level since... Source ..read more

May 3, 2024 by Lee Howard, SVP IPv4.Global Cogent (NASDAQ: CCOI) recently announced that it was offering secured notes for $206MM. The unusual part is what it’s using as security: some of its IPv4 addresses and the leases on those IPv4 addresses. IPv4 addresses are the identifiers used to send and receive data in version 4 of the Internet Protocol. The protocol uses a string of 32 ones and zeroes... Source ..read more

High demand in April brought prices for small/medium blocks back up to the mid $30s per address. A small volume of /16s traded, slightly below the previous month. Source ..read more

by Leo Vegoda Until you have a postal service, street names and addresses are a convenience. But when everyone can mail letters, an administration must make each location unique. When the internet was still the ARPANET, Jon Postel did this for all sorts of unique identifiers used for computer networks. IPv4 addresses were a part of this, but he also managed port assignments, and the creation of... Source ..read more

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