[AusNOG] APNIC Slashes Costs for New Members

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 22:58 +1100, Jared Hirst wrote:
> The going rate is $16/ IP so if someone buys a /22 for $2k they can then on
> sell it for $16k over night.

Once.

> This is my argument here, it has now become easy for ANY company to
> 'invest' and 'monetize' from space.

Yeah - but it's a very brief business model, and it's only selling to
people who have already bought their own and want a second one.
Otherwise they'd have to be really dumb to buy so expensively something
they could have at APNIC's knock-down price...

Regards, K.

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