According to http://business.comcast.com/internet/business-internet/static-= ip Comcast charges $19.95 per month for one static IPv4 address.
High dollar amounts for a single static IPv4 address are nothing new, and are IMHO a side effect of monopoly/duopoly last mile providers being able to shake down end users because the end user's financially viable options are typically just "pay up or don't get a static." The question really at hand: what happens when you need to host a new pile of servers, need/can-justify a /24, and your hosting provider quotes you $2560/month just for the IP space (at $10/IP)? That'd be an incentive to look seriously at IPv6.... I *think*. Switching hosting providers will probably become a popular game for the early depletion era, as providers attempt to rob each other of customers. That's probably a losing game in the long run. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.