On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:35:50PM +0100, michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
Someone recently offered an American ISP 6 figures for a /20 block that was acquired as part of a corporate acquisition. The ISP declined the offer and returned the block to ARIN.
This could mean that the value of a /20 on the open market is 100,000 USD. Since a /20 has 16 /24 equivalents in it, that would place the value of a /24 at 6250 USD.
Not terribly relevant to IPv4 addresses.
hugely relevant, as the extrapolation above is based on way, way, way too few datapoints/samples.
So there you have two actual price offers showing a substantial range of values. Someone with actual economical statistics experience may be able to suggest a likely distribution of prices over this price range and come up with a more likely value of ARIN's annual ISP allocations.
the first example was a price offered by a company that obviously had way too much surplus cash around, and apparently didn't qualify for their own block. the second example (spammers looking to rent a block) is a bit of a stretch as well. -- Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +971 55 410-5633 "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak." - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"