[geeks] Annual Whois POC Validation: GSM18-ARIN

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Sunday, July 18, 2010, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 09:58:05AM +0300, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> > The problem with this is up until now I have had to do nothing to
> > keep my IP block. Now, since my address changed since 1991, I have
> > to go to their web page and change it.
> 
> Portable IP space costs money.  If you've not had to pay for it
> before now, you slipped through the cracks and were lucky.  Is it
> just a /24?
> 
> I *do not* want to know what $WORK pays for 34/8 and 134.132/16.  I
> know it's a *lot*, from talking to the guys in corporate.
> 
> Aha.  https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html
> 
> For the /8 they pay $18K and for the /16 it's $4500.  So, 22.5K just
> to have/use/keep those IP addresses.

That doesn't sound horrible.  At least it's not 2^16 * the cost of a /24 
for the /8 (which is what I would have expected)...

Pat
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