Subject: What does a /8 Lease For ?

From: "Jim Fleming" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:28:29 -0500

There are 16,777,216 IPv4 addresses in a /8.
Many companies lease those addresses for $10 per month.
It is common for a broker to take one month as their annual fee in the real estate market.

Given the above...that would mean a /8 leases for $160,777,216 per year.

Will AT&T and the other companies be prepared to pay ICANN that each year ?
...will that be split with Lucent ?

http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
012/8           AT&T Bell Laboratories                  Jun 95
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What about ARIN, RIPE and APNIC ?
Will they be paying that each year to ICANN for *each* of the /8s they have ?

Does ICANN need that much revenue from Address Space Leasing with the $1 per domain per year fee?
....which may yield ~$50,000,000 a year...

Should domain name fees subsidize address space users ?
Why does ARIN pay ICANN and not AT&T ?

Jim Fleming
2002:[IPv4]:000X:03DB:...IPv8 is closer than you think...
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