That depends on your definition of grey market, there is an officially approved ARIN IP block transfer process for people who are buying, via brokers, discrete /24s and larger.



On Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 4:46 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:

On 2/16/21 4:18 PM, Fred Baker wrote:
> You may find this article interesting:
> https://blog.apnic.net/2019/12/13/keep-calm-and-carry-on-the-status-of-ipv4-address-allocation/
> <https://blog.apnic.net/2019/12/13/keep-calm-and-carry-on-the-status-of-ipv4-address-allocation/>
>
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
>>