Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

Wed Apr 22 00:20:37 UTC 2009

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:51:11PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:58 PM, David Hubbard wrote:
>> Raising the price won't help; there's already a huge amount
>> of wasted address space by web hosts selling IP addresses
>> to customers who need them solely for 'seo purposes' rather
>
> It's a common request we see.  We refuse it, and point them to the  
> Google documentation that shows that unique IPs don't help or hurt their 
> SEO standings.

Then they come back with a request for IPs for SSL certificates, which is a
valid technical justification.  BTDT.  People will find a way to do the
stupid thing they want to do.

- Matt