{"id":76528,"date":"2015-04-30T21:22:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T01:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-24T13:13:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T17:13:25","slug":"romania-leads-ipv4-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/romania-leads-ipv4-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania Leads IPv4 Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techgenix.com\/ipv4-resale-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-102892 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Romania Leads IPv4 Market\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IPv4-resale-e1567440408495-71x75.jpg?resize=71%2C75&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Romania Leads IPv4 Market\" width=\"71\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IPv4-resale-e1567440408495.jpg?resize=71%2C75&amp;ssl=1 71w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IPv4-resale-e1567440408495.jpg?resize=142%2C150&amp;ssl=1 142w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IPv4-resale-e1567440408495.jpg?w=732&amp;ssl=1 732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 71px) 100vw, 71px\" \/><\/a>I first wrote about the <strong>grey market<a href=\"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/index.php\/ipv4-address-grey-market-emerges\/\">\u00a0in IPv4<\/a>\u00a0addresses<\/strong> when\u00a0<a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a title=\"NASDAQ | MSFT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?cid=358464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSFT<\/a>) bought <a title=\"Nortel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nortel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener wikipedia noreferrer\">Nortel<\/a>&#8216;s I<a title=\"IPv4 Address Worth $11.25\" href=\"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/index.php\/ipv4-address-worth-11-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pv4 IP block back<\/a> in 2011. A \u00a0recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circleid.com\/posts\/ipv4_market_heats_up_while_supply_dwindles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.circleid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CircleID<\/a><\/em>\u00a0proves the market has <strong>caught up with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. In the <em>CircleID<\/em> article, Doug Madory, Director of Internet Analysis at <a href=\"http:\/\/dyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dyn<\/a> reports that the market for <a title=\"IPv4\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IPv4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener wikipedia noreferrer\">IPv4 addresses<\/a> is<strong> heating up especially in Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>RIPE&#8217;s IPv4 transfers<\/h3>\n<p>According to Dyn, statistics from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripe.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RIPE<\/a>, the European registrar, show that the IPv4 market has heated up.\u00a0RIPE\u2019s table of transfers of provider aggregatable (PA) IPv4 address clearly shows a rapidly increasing rate of transfers of IPv4 address blocks and unique IPv4 addresses.\u00a0 In fact:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dyn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-102896 \" title=\"increasing rate of transfers of IPv4 address blocks\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IPv4_sales_dyn.gif?resize=176%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"increasing rate of transfers of IPv4 address blocks\" width=\"176\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IPv4_sales_dyn.gif?resize=150%2C123&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IPv4_sales_dyn.gif?resize=75%2C61&amp;ssl=1 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a>February 2015 saw the <strong>most organizational transfers<\/strong> (373).<\/li>\n<li>November 2014 saw the <strong>most unique address transfers<\/strong> (nearly 2 million).<\/li>\n<li>The number of transfers in the RIPE region far <strong>outpaces any other region.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Romania is a key player in IPv4<\/h3>\n<p>An analysis of the RIPE data by the author finds that <strong><a title=\"Romania\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=44.4166666667,26.1&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=44.4166666667,26.1 (Romania)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Romania<\/a> is a key player<\/strong> in the IPv4 market.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tr-tr.facebook.com\/OutstandingPlace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-102899\" title=\"Romania Leads IPv4 Market\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/romania-logo-e1567440896470-150x101.jpg?resize=123%2C83&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Romania Leads IPv4 Market\" width=\"123\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/romania-logo-e1567440896470.jpg?resize=150%2C101&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/romania-logo-e1567440896470.jpg?resize=75%2C50&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/romania-logo-e1567440896470.jpg?w=186&amp;ssl=1 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 123px) 100vw, 123px\" \/><\/a>During 2014\/15 1,069 (<strong>58%<\/strong>) transfers came from <a href=\"https:\/\/wikitravel.org\/en\/Romania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Romanian<\/a> organizations.<\/li>\n<li>947 (<strong>51%<\/strong>) of all the blocks transferred in the RIPE region were from a single Romanian organization, namely, <a href=\"http:\/\/jump.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jump.ro<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Jump is willing to sell large blocks of IPv4 address space (around <strong>$10\/address<\/strong>) or lease smaller blocks for $0.50\/address\/year.<\/li>\n<li>Of the 4,656 routed prefixes that make up the <a title=\"Saudi Arabia\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=24.65,46.7666666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=24.65,46.7666666667 (Saudi%20Arabia)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Saudi Arabia<\/strong><\/a> part of the Internet, 1,498 or almost a third of them were Romanian just a few months ago.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Syrian<\/strong> state telecom got 5.155.0.0\/16 from Romania\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nav.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nav Telecom<\/a> last August and Iranian\u00a0telecoms bought over <strong>1 million unique IP addresses<\/strong> in 85 transfers over the past year (80% from Jump.ro).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Saudi Telecom<\/strong> received 17 IPv4 transfers since September last year representing over 1.5 million IP addresses: 14 were from Romanian sources and the other 3 were from<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ukraine<\/strong>.\u00a0 At $10\/address, those addresses would have cost Saudi Telecom $15 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A side-effect of the IPv4 gray market is abetting the growth of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/supportforums.cisco.com\/document\/12202206\/size-internet-global-routing-table-and-its-potential-side-effects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">global routing table<\/a>s<\/strong>\u00a0to dangerous levels. The first effects of this were seen in August 2014 when <strong>BGP routing tables grew<\/strong> to over 512,000 routes when many older routers could no longer properly track the routes.<em> <a title=\"ZDNet\" href=\"http:\/\/zdnet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ZDNet<\/a><\/em> explains that routes are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipv4depletion.com\/?p=672\">typically kept in a specialized kind of memory<\/a> called Tertiary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) which has a limited capacity which fails when it is full.<\/p>\n<p>The author asks what are the implications of all this? Now that the Romanians have demonstrated that there is a lucrative business to be had in selling off IPv4 address space, will we see ISPs in developing countries rush to sell off their address space for some quick cash?\u00a0 If such sales result in the IPv4 space getting sliced more and more thinly, we can surely expect the global routing table to increase in size, perhaps dramatically, as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Will this cause more router meltdowns?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160513003050\/http:\/\/www.prweb.com:80\/releases\/2015\/04\/prweb12641657.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">V4Escrow CEO, Washington Post Contributor, and IPv4 Address Transfer Expert Elvis Velea Reveals 2015 IP Market Predictions Before ARIN 35<\/a> (prweb.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. 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