[u-u] Scavenging IPv4

[Jim Mercer]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 09:17:59PM -0400, Hugh Gamble wrote:
> If it were me, I could think of personal and small business things to do with a good chunk of it.
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> If you have no short term use for it yourself, you could be a bit mercenary, and lease some out.

if anyone is interested in leasing some space, i can broker a deal on that.

 /24 -> /16

> Is your block portable?

as best i know, all legacy space (prior to ARIN/etc, say, circa 1995), is
portable.

> That opens up your options and increases the potential value.

various places to look, but going rate for a /24 is max $10/ip == $2500.

--jim


> 
> But I expect you???ve thought through all that already.
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> From: u-u-bounces at unixunanimous.org [mailto:u-u-bounces at unixunanimous.org] On Behalf Of Evan Leibovitch
> Sent: April-14-15 8:50 PM
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> Subject: [u-u] Scavenging IPv4
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> Hi all,
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> So this week I discovered that I still own a Class C bank of IP addresses (well, nobody now uses "Class C" anymore, it's now "/24"). This allocation apparently dates back to 1994.
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> Is there any good reason not just to give it back to ARIN?
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> Evan Leibovitch
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