One of the first big deals in the IPv4 address secondary market appears to be happening – Microsoft paying $7.5m for pre-RIR (aka “early registration”) IPv4 address space currently held by Nortel.
There have been deals happening on the secondary market already. But this one is significant for two reasons:
- The size of the deal – over 600k IPv4 addresses
- That Nortel’s administrators recognise these unused IPv4 addresses, that Nortel paid either nothing, or only a nominal fee, to recieve, are a real asset which they can realise capital against.
Interesting times… Now, where’s my dodgy yellow van?
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