IPv4 addresses priced at $4 on new trading site IPv4 address trading – long predicted by authorities such as APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) chief scientist Geoff Huston – has arriving with a vengeance. Now there's even a site devoted to it: Tradeipv4.com, registered at the end of March by a German Python developer Martin von Loewis. Tradeipv4.com is …
It's like those conspiracy theories where the Big Bad Oil Companies are keeping super-high-efficiency free energy secret, except in this case it's not a conspiracy.
Why introduce a 128 bit address space when you can keep the old model and charge people increasingly high amounts for a set of 32 1s and 0s?
Same as anybody else faced with dwindling supplies of a finite resource: Pay more for it, go bust, or both. Plus, plenty of ISPs already have limited IPv4 address space. Some of them own their own addresses, some rent address pool access from others. It's one of the reasons DHCP was invented.
Massive IPv6 adoption will only happen when the big players, like Google, Yahoo, Facebook and the rest, go to a primarily IPv6 service. Until then, why should Joe Public give a shit about something geeky and technical like TCP/IP?
I've got my own /24 running my household network and a couple of business servers and phones. It's in the APNIC region and it was got perfectly legally in the early days of the internet
They are trying everything possible to steal it back from me now. First they took away my ability to manage the domain and revoked my user IDs. They then required me to get them to make changes. Then they put a freeze on any changes to the zone delegation unless I pay an annual fee of thousands of dollars. So I'm just sitting tight and not changing my DNS servers in any way.
They can have my /24 when the prise it from my cold dead hand.
Having never admin'd an IP block, I have to be honest, your answer didn't help me straight off, but did point me in the right direction.
Google filled in the gaps, and for anyone else suffering the same appalling ignorance as me.
The answer appears to be setting up reverse dns lookup entries.
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