[57588] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Independent space from ARIN [wandering further OT]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Damm)
Mon Apr 14 17:23:18 2003
From: Mike Damm <MikeD@irwinresearch.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:23:05 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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From: Brandon Ross [mailto:bross@sockeye.com]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 1:51 PM
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Independent space from ARIN
> > Overbuilding office space in San Francisco doesn't *usually* cause real
> > estate issues in Tokyo.
>
> I must be missing your point because I don't see how that's relevant.
> Think of the 69/8 space as being out in the middle of nowhere (due to the
> bogon filters). It's cheap land but it comes with it's problems. If you
> invest in it, you can increase it's value, if you don't want to, buy the
> more expensive downtown property.
And everything goes the way of the domain market. You mistype a .3 as a .4
and end up at some porn site! Or worse yet, Silicon Valley startups are
building business models around peddling vanity IPs such as 69.69.69.69 and
4.2.2.4 on eBay.
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