{"id":6420,"date":"2011-04-04T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/?p=6420"},"modified":"2022-12-30T16:01:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T21:01:18","slug":"ipv4-address-worth-11-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/ipv4-address-worth-11-25\/","title":{"rendered":"IPv4 Address Worth $11.25"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IPv4Now that the last IPv4 addresses<\/a> are gone, the Internet numbers are increasing in value. Microsoft is spending $7.5 million for 666,625 IPv4 addresses from Nortel<\/a> (NRTLQ)<\/a>. As Google<\/a> (GOOG<\/a>) and Apple<\/a> (AAPL<\/a>) fight over Nortel’s 4G bones (which I noted<\/a> earlier<\/em>), DownloadSquad<\/em><\/a> reports<\/a> that Microsoft<\/a> (MSFT<\/a>) jumped all over Nortel’s stash of IPv4 addresses when they became available for purchase through bankruptcy proceedings.<\/p>\n

\"NORTEL\"Microsoft ponied up $7.5 million for the Nortel pool, which works out to $11.25 per IP address. There were 13 other interested buyers, but only Microsoft and three others actually submitted bids according to DownloadSquad<\/em>. With the last block of IPv4 addresses already issued (which I wrote<\/a> about when it happened<\/em>), snatching up over 666,000 IPv4 addresses in one fell swoop is a smart move by Microsoft.<\/p>\n

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\"Microsoft<\/a>Could Ballmer<\/a>‘s boys be planning a cloud-based IPv6 <–> IPv4 transition service? <\/em><\/p>\n

Are they trying to jump-start an IPv4 address space underground economy? <\/em><\/p>\n

As the authors say, we’ll just have to wait and see.<\/em><\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is Redmond up to?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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