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Finance Strategies for Universities with Surplus IPv4 Addresses
An often-overlooked opportunity for university funding is the surplus of unused IPv4 addresses many of these institutions hold. Read more
What is Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP)
Many leading cloud providers have BYOIP policies that allow previous owners or lessors to pair their legacy IP addresses with the new cloud resources. Read more
IP Address Reputation Basics
An IP address’ reputation can significantly impact its utility and worth in the digital marketplace. A tarnished reputation can hinder email deliverability and even prevent businesses from operating online. Read more
Automated Geolocation
If you don’t automate IP address management, you can’t know what is being used. That reduces your control over your own network and limits the basis of future plans to hope and luck. Read more
/24 – The Internet’s Smallest Block
Underlying the transfer rules is the fact that it is very difficult to use anything smaller than a /24 on the internet. That doesn’t explain the rationale for why this is true. The explanation is interesting. Read more
Finance and IT Teams Can Collaborate on Investment Opportunities
Effective collaboration between finance and IT teams can help unlock the untapped potential of intangible tech assets, especially IPv4 addresses. Read more
Corporate Finance Strategies for Surplus IPv4 Address Monetization
In the modern financial landscape, IPv4 addresses represent valuable intangible assets that can help drive business growth and financial stability. Read more
Bring Your Own IP
(AWS-BYOIP)
On Friday, July 28, 2023, AWS announced they would begin charging for every IPv4 address an account is allocated or using on the platform, starting February 1, 2024. Read more
IPv4 Address Transfers
& The Chain of Title
RIRs are deeply concerned with illicit use of IP addresses. To stop such use they require different kinds of proof of ownership when approving an official transfer. Read more
2023: The First Half
In the first six months of 2023 larger block prices hovered between $50-55 per address and smaller blocks continued to fall in price. The difference in recent months has grown to 30-35%. Read more
The ARIN Qualified Facilitator
ARIN created the Qualified Facilitator Program (QFP) to be a resource for the community to assist in identifying Qualified Facilitators engaged in brokering the transfer of IPv4 addresses. Read more
The Value of
Private Address Space
Private addresses are intended for use on end user networks. That means anything from a domestic WiFi connection to a large bank’s internal server infrastructure. Read more