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The UK government has started selling off internet addresses that it no longer uses.
The first group of 150,000 addresses has been snapped up by a Norwegian firm called Altibox for about £600,000.
[...]The surplus addresses are part of a much bigger block of 16 million addresses given to the Department of Work and Pensions in 1993. Earlier this year, the DWP started a project to see how many of these IP addresses could be freed.
An official report produced before the DWP began its investigation suggested that 70% of the massive block was used for the UK government's internal network, leaving about five million free for disposal.
What are the chances the government will end up leasing some back from the companies they are selling them to?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @10:32AM
OK new plan. Let's move the unwashed masses over to IPv6, and all we 1337-d00dz can stay on IPv4. We'll be the elite minority by using the old protocols instead, and since there are so few really smart people, 32-bit addressing will more than enough for all of us! It's brilliant.
(Score: 2) by tathra on Sunday May 24 2015, @03:09PM
shouldn't it be the other way around? seriously, shouldn't all the nerds and intellectuals be setting up on IPv6, one, because its newer and better, and two, to get away from all the unwashed idiot masses? IPv6 should be the new pre-AOL-internet. the IPv6 Eternal September is inevitable, sure, but we'd probably have the IPv6 internet to ourselves for decades.
everyone who longs for the days before AOL ruined the internet, this is what you should be doing!