Any recommendations for legitimate ip brokers?


From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+jamann=mt.gov@nanog.org> on behalf of Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 5:46 PM
To: Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: dumb question: are any of the RIR's out of IPv4 addresses?
 

On 2/16/21 4:18 PM, Fred Baker wrote:
> You may find this article interesting:
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://blog.apnic.net/2019/12/13/keep-calm-and-carry-on-the-status-of-ipv4-address-allocation/__;!!GaaboA!999i8DMj5mceMG2R6J8wgZ29XjBhQvAJU3QMixqhvjqpQCsdAvcck6BpWKVqMw$ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://blog.apnic.net/2019/12/13/keep-calm-and-carry-on-the-status-of-ipv4-address-allocation/__;!!GaaboA!999i8DMj5mceMG2R6J8wgZ29XjBhQvAJU3QMixqhvjqpQCsdAvcck6BpWKVqMw$ >
>
So aside from Afrinic, this is all being done on the gray market?
Wouldn't you expect that price to follow something like an exponential
curve as available addresses become more and more scarce and unavailable
for essentially any price?

Mike


> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Feb 16, 2021, at 3:07 PM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Basically are there places that you can't get allocations? If so,
>> what is happening?
>>
>> Mike
>>