ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero

Thu Sep 24 22:57:18 UTC 2015

> According to http://business.comcast.com/internet/business-internet/static-=
> ip
> Comcast charges $19.95 per month for one static IPv4 address.

High dollar amounts for a single static IPv4 address are nothing new,
and are IMHO a side effect of monopoly/duopoly last mile providers being
able to shake down end users because the end user's financially viable 
options are typically just "pay up or don't get a static."

The question really at hand: what happens when you need to host a new 
pile of servers, need/can-justify a /24, and your hosting provider 
quotes you $2560/month just for the IP space (at $10/IP)?

That'd be an incentive to look seriously at IPv6.... I *think*.

Switching hosting providers will probably become a popular game for 
the early depletion era, as providers attempt to rob each other of
customers.  That's probably a losing game in the long run.

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.