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Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Nakamura)
Thu Mar 24 09:10:16 2011
In-Reply-To: <20110324125757.GG23560@leitl.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:10:10 -0400
From: Jay Nakamura <zeusdadog@gmail.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
666,624 is kind of odd number, isn't it? That comes out to a
/13,/15,/19,/21 and a /22.
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
>
> http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/3/23/4778509.html
>
> Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
>
> by Milton Mueller on Wed 23 Mar 2011 10:30 PM EDT =A0| =A0Permanent Link =
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> ShareThis
>
> Wake up call for our friends in the Regional Internet Registries. Nortel,=
the
> Canadian telecommunications equipment manufacturer that filed for bankrup=
tcy
> protection in 2009, has succeeded in making its legacy IPv4 address block=
an
> asset that can be sold to generate money for its creditors. The March 23
> edition of the Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Report has reported that Nortel=
's
> block of 666,624 IPv4's was sold for $7.5 million - a price of $11.25 per=
IP
> address. The buyer of the addresses was Microsoft. More information is in=
its
> filing in a Delware bankruptcy court. Now the interesting question become=
s,
> does the price of IPv4s go up or down from here? As the realities of dual
> stack sink in, I'm betting...up.
>
>
