They probably assume you're some kind of internet business for which $300/month is nothing. One option you have is to rent a connection somewhere nearby (e.g. a colo in a nearby datacenter with more providers), announce your IPs there and tunnel them home. This won't be cheap or convenient either, but it could well work out cheaper than $300/month. If your ISP doesn't like it (they will like it, because they won't know), they're free to stop playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes. On 01/12/2025 16:03, Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG wrote:
I wish they were dropping in my area. I called my backwoods ISP last week (they are a monopoly with ~4,000 fiber customers) to go from a single static at my office to a /29 and they said "It's $300/mo". I asked why it was so high and they said "My boss doesn't like configuring them, so he set the price really high". Then I asked when IPv6 would be available and got the same answer I got back in 2019: "My boss said he was thinking about looking into it next year".
-A
On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM Tom Mitchell via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
v4 addresses have been dropping rapidly. They were as high as $65 last year. Now, there are offers for $11. Average market price now is in the mid-$20's. All the NA ISPs have been selling much of their inventory. Why not.
- Tom
On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM Mike Hammett via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
What are you using for guides for IPv4 pricing? There are a bunch of undated blogs, which don't mean much if there's no date.
Hilco's blog says somewhere around $27 for a /22 to /24: https://www.ipv4.global/reports/october-2025/ but then fast forward a month on their auction page and it's down to $22: https://auctions.ipv4.global/prior-sales
These guys stopped updating in June: https://ipv4market.eu/ipv4-market-average-sale-prices-2025/
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