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Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Mar 24 09:50:04 2011

In-Reply-To: <4D8B47E5.9010709@spectraaccess.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:18:52 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Bret Clark <bclark@spectraaccess.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Bret Clark <bclark@spectraaccess.com> wrote:
> Why would Microsoft need this many IP's? I could see the benefiting service
> providers much more.

Microsoft runs Hotmail. Office Live and a bunch of other services you
might have heard of.

And if every common or garden snowshoer can get a /15, why can't a
legitimate corporation get some for itself? :)

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)


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