[AusNOG] /16 for sale.... well not really but why not!

[Julien Goodwin]

I did some analysis of this a while back:

http://laptop006.livejournal.com/52380.html

My summary was:
"In terms of the coming IPv4 exhaustion we have 817 allocated /16's
completely unused, for over 5.3M IP addresses, or ~3.2 entire /8's,
giving, at the current consumption rate[6], just under two and a half
months more IPv4[7]."

On 25/01/13 16:58, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> With all the interest in IP’s I thought it would be good to share this
> little story.
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> A while back 6-8 months ago I did some digging and found a spare /16 not
> being used…. Yep that’s right a /16 with not one active resource on it.
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> I approached the owner who is no longer in business but found the
> administrators and asked if they can release it back to the pool and at
> the same time transfer me a /20. They refused point blank and said they
> would be holding onto it as it could one day be worth lots!
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> After talking with APNIC about it I was told *(verbally) that they can
> hold onto them even if they have no proven use for them…. So I wonder
> how many of these are out there.
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> What really annoys me is we are running out and are using every address
> sparingly and here is a company who no longer exists holding onto a /16
> as one day it might be worth something….. go figure.
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> How many other examples of this exist?
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> Discuss!
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