by Mike Burns | Jun 28, 2021 | Industry News, Market Status, Our Thoughts
I have been giving consideration to the assignment of a huge number of IPv4 addresses (about 1 in every 25 that exist) to a small company in the next town over, Plantation FL. The US Government has made it a priority to transition to IPv6. There was movement towards a...
by Tom Fantacone | Apr 15, 2019 | Market Status, Our Thoughts
Is an IPv4 auction an appropriate forum to buy or sell IP addresses? There’s a handful of websites out there purporting to provide an auction-style marketplace for scarce number resources. The answer, in a nutshell, is that the risks and drawbacks usually make buying...
by Mike Burns | Oct 29, 2018 | Industry News, Market Status, Our Thoughts
The author of the article linked below, without mentioning NAT at all, comes to an important conclusion about IPv4 scarcity. He senses that there is a distinction between the absolute number of devices connected to the Internet and the number of devices which require...