Leasing IPv4 Subnets

Leasing of IPv4 addresses has become more popular lately. For some lessees who need address space, a lease allows them to begin using IPv4 addresses without the need to invest the full purchase price, and allows them to be more flexible with projects that may come and go. For lessors, there is the incentive to monetize addresses that they do not wish to sell. The pricing and the business cases make sense, but problems lurk.

• Lessees can damage the reputation of lessors’ addresses.
• Lessors can cancel and sell their block.
• Lessees can cancel and stop paying.
• Lessees may require the lessor to perform various pre-lease technical actions to make the block usable to them.
• Lessors can over-react to abuse claims and lessees can under-react.
• Contracts, especially international ones, are hard to enforce.
• Lessees may want to rotate blocks, change geolocation, require rDNS delegation, change the ASN authorized to advertise the block, and otherwise burden the lessor.
• Lessors want secure, long-term income but also want the freedom to sell quickly.
• Small leases often require large time investments.
• Some lessees are engaged in constant battles with streaming services, sneaker sites, and those who seek to block IP addresses.
• Third-party databases play a large part in lease-ability and pricing, including geolocation, spam, and internal blacklists at shopping and streaming sites.
• It’s not always simple to revoke a Letter of Agency or get a lessee to stop routing addresses.
• Lessors are required to remove the detritus of prior leases like maintainers, route objects, radB entries, SWIPs, rdns delegations, etc.

At IPTrading.com, we have years of experience with the IPv4 leasing market as brokers and lessors of IPv4 space. We offer leases from our own inventory and we offer brokerage services for owners of address blocks they wish to lease out.

For lessees, we offer a stable platform for finding a lease partner, generating a lease agreement, providing a valid LoA or a working tunnel connection, and processing invoicing and payments efficiently. We allow you to communicate with a person intimately familiar with the IPv4 market who can understand your technical requirements and act on them immediately.

For lessors, we provide a safe means to monetize your address space by taking advantage of our own experience as address lessors. We know the market, the risks and benefits of various lessee types, and we can perform the necessary technical interactions with the registries, geolocation, and routing databases around the world.

Contact us if you need addresses or have some you are interested in leasing.