[113800] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Palmer)
Tue Apr 21 20:20:58 2009
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:20:37 +1000
From: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:51:11PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:58 PM, David Hubbard wrote:
>> Raising the price won't help; there's already a huge amount
>> of wasted address space by web hosts selling IP addresses
>> to customers who need them solely for 'seo purposes' rather
>
> It's a common request we see. We refuse it, and point them to the
> Google documentation that shows that unique IPs don't help or hurt their
> SEO standings.
Then they come back with a request for IPs for SSL certificates, which is a
valid technical justification. BTDT. People will find a way to do the
stupid thing they want to do.
- Matt
