On: IP addresses through 2024

[wmf]

Is Amazon not demand? Do they exist outside economics?

(Legally they're supposed to use those addresses within a year(?) of buying them, but I won't pretend that anyone would really notice whether that's the case or not.)

[technothrasher → wmf]

> but I won't pretend that anyone would really notice

I've got a /24 that I obtained back in the Wild West days of the early 1990's, when all you had to do was send an email form and a few minutes later you'd get one assigned. I haven't used it in over 20 years now, but nobody has ever come to take it from me.

[wmf → technothrasher]

You may be grandfathered under pre-RIR rules and also no one is auditing this stuff.

[chippiewill → wmf]

It's easy for Amazon to artificially use their address space because they can rotate them around customers using dynamic allocations.

[timewizard → wmf]

There is an hourly fee for IPv4s now. There was not before.

[ta1243 → timewizard]

That's more to do with increasing prices than decreasing demand

[timewizard → ta1243]

In the traditional capitalist model, those are the same thing.

[thayne → timewizard]

Only in a perfectly efficient market, which is pretty rare in the real world.

[mike_d → wmf]

You know what I mean.

[wmf → mike_d]

I don't know what you mean. Do you think Amazon was paying very high prices for IPs they don't need? Were they trying to corner the market and create a monopoly?