| gabriel rosenkoetter on 13 Oct 2006 02:50:01 -0000 |
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:55:21PM -0400, John Von Essen wrote: > If I knew ARIN would be such a pain now, I would have snagged a /16 > back when nobody cared or asked questions, and then be grandfathered > with it. Plenty of people have. And if they would just give back what they're demonstrably not using, never mind what they're using but really don't need, they wouldn't be such a damn commodity. > Nowadays, getting IP assignments from ARIN is like pulling teeth, and > expensive... like $1000 for a /24 for small shops, then $500 yearly > "membership" fees. Thats ridiculous. And its nearly impossible to get > a large block anymore - you need "pull" to make that happen. Yes, well. At some point ARIN noticed that it actually cost them money to provide this information to the whole world... It's still free if you know the right people, and certain IP blocks' ownerhip is in... questionable state. Such that if you choose to advertise it (which you probably don't want to do; just the routine port-sniffing your average /16 gets is more than most people want to pay the bandwidth for) and you're sufficiently peered, most of the world will believe you. What precious few bits ARIN still has "reserved" will cost you something, and you don't even get to bid unless you're the Right Sort, but the whole price thing's rather negotiable, although the people in a position to negotiate can drop the $1000 for a /24 without caring. (Hell, I've got $1000/$500 per annum to spare for a /24, I've just got no use for it. That's essentially free, if I *had* a use for it. You probably spend more than that on cable TV or a newspaper subscription.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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