Am Freitag, 5. Juni 2026, 15:27:45 UTC+00:00:01 schrieben Sie:
If they would seriously care about *monetary* incentives, they could just sell off the /16 - at the current rate of about US$ 30 for a clean network, that would be roughly 2 million US$. Quite a big carrot. Gert, i remember you brougt that argument in the past, but i experience the opposite. As you might understand, i'm not allowed to provide company names, but it should be relatively easy to scan the networks for statistical example traffic or at least IPs "up".
I would bet others here know companies the same situation as well... These companies are typically large enterprises today with cash flows of billions (! per year - but are not IT or Telco companies which may really require or utilize such large alocations/assignements today. I even know some of the responsible persons in few of that companies in person / worked with them and had discussions with 2 of. While i just can imagine about the whole picture behind, they have no interest in downsizing their paid allocations as the income from renting out would usually not help their department while the higher levels don't know about the value of the address space or do niot want the overhead or operational risks "just" to get money from a foreign business model in. As i said, these are not IT nor Telco companies familiar with maintaining own "IT businesses". They are in avery different situation when they have to explain rising costs within their department... or in short: they seems to big to be flexible enough to use renting out or sell IP space to get some additional income in on a business field foreign to them. Expecting you are working in IT / Telco industry only, there is probably a significantly different mindset...ß) cheers, niels. -- --- Niels Dettenbach Syndicat IT & Internet https://www.syndicat.com PGP: https://syndicat.com/pub_key.asc ---