[184828] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Current IPv4 Options
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Mulkey)
Thu Oct 22 11:36:00 2015
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From: Joel Mulkey <joelm@bigleaf.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:35:54 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAG3QdWPE5DQAX_qe3qOMxQRoGP_AS3QkGRZ61eNNQjf4kOoAaA@mail.gmail.com>
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We recently went through this. After looking around for a bit I found good =
prices with both IPTrading.com and IPv4Auctions.com. I ended up going with =
IPv4 auctions.com. The purchasing process was pretty painless, however befo=
re I did that I went through the ARIN pre-approval process which was their =
standard annoying level of verification. It took probably 4-5 weeks for the=
whole process (ARIN pre-approval, purchase, seller transfer time).
I did some careful research on the available blocks from both vendors to tr=
y to make sure they weren't used for SPAM (and also simply asked the seller=
s). ARIN has a VERY helpful tool for this called a WhoWas report which you =
can use to dig into the history of the block.
Joel Mulkey
Founder and CEO
Bigleaf Networks
Direct: +1 (503) 985-6964 | Support: +1 (503) 985-8298 | www.bigleaf.ne=
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> On Oct 22, 2015, at 7:24 AM, Clay Curtis <clay584@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I work for a VAR and we are starting to have customers come to us to help
> with internet redundancy projects and they are unable to get address spac=
e
> from ARIN. What are the viable options here? I have read about secondar=
y
> markets, transfers, auction sites, leasing, etc. Can NANOG point me in t=
he
> right direction as to the most effective way to get v4 space right now in
> the US? And before we get into the whole IPv6 discussion, yes, yes, we a=
re
> discussing this with customers as well. That being said, they still need
> the IPv4 space in the near-term.
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> Thanks all,
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> Clay Curtis
