[address-policy-wg] Re: [arin-ppml] Offer to buy IP address block (was Spectrum and IP address reservations)
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Jim Mercer
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Thu Jul 23 13:18:12 CEST 2009
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:35:50PM +0100, michael.dillon at bt.com wrote: > > > Someone recently offered an American ISP 6 figures for a /20 block > > > that was acquired as part of a corporate acquisition. > > > The ISP declined the offer and returned the block to ARIN. > > > > > > This could mean that the value of a /20 on the open market > > is 100,000 > > > USD. Since a /20 has 16 /24 equivalents in it, that would place the > > > value of a /24 at 6250 USD. > > > > http://xkcd.com/605/ > > Not terribly relevant to IPv4 addresses. hugely relevant, as the extrapolation above is based on way, way, way too few datapoints/samples. > So there you have two actual price offers showing a substantial > range of values. Someone with actual economical statistics experience > may be able to suggest a likely distribution of prices over this > price range and come up with a more likely value of ARIN's annual > ISP allocations. the first example was a price offered by a company that obviously had way too much surplus cash around, and apparently didn't qualify for their own block. the second example (spammers looking to rent a block) is a bit of a stretch as well. -- Jim Mercer jim at reptiles.org +971 55 410-5633 "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak." - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
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