IPv4 addresses are becoming valuable

I would imagine that a block is much more valuable than the sum of its parts, so it's not quite right that a single IP is now worth $11.

Nortel is selling IPv4 addresses? It's bit difficult to sell something that is officially owned by the RIR (in this case: ARIN). Maybe Nortel (or the buyer) should review the current policy of allocation and assignment from ARIN : <a href="https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html</a>

I wonder what Microsoft is going to do with the block. If you have a valid use for addresses, you can still get them pretty much for free right now, though that'll change in a few months.<p>Perhaps they're just hoarding them for the future already?

Interesting that the sale was on 666 thousand addresses, while Nortel has afaik a whole /8, 16.7M addresses. Where's the rest of them?

Is this really the case the IP blocks can be sold onwards?<p>I always thought that IP address allocations were assigned by IANA (through the local regional registries like ARIN and RIPE), and as such were not any property of the assignee to be sold. If an address range was not needed anymore and the assignee surrendered control of them, they would return to the free IP address pool at the regional registry.

Well, now we see why IPv6 is so slow to be implemented ... After food, oil, here comes the ip speculation. Not viable in the long term but meanwhile some will do a few bucks.

ISPs charge money for static IP. And now we see it's being bought and sold. Isn't that a shame?