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UK Selling Off Unused IPv4 Addresses

posted by martyb on Sunday May 24 2015, @07:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the addresses-are-where-it's-at dept.

n1 writes with news of a report from the BBC:

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?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday May 24 2015, @12:28PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday May 24 2015, @12:28PM (#187148) Journal

    You won't be on the Internet anymore, but in your isolation you can be smug about your superiority over the common folk.

    I like Belgian beer and I can download about 30% of it over IPv6 [stateoftheinternet.com].

    Also, in regards with IPv6, Google shows USofA in (neither red nor blue, but...) green [google.com]... you reckon is the colour of those stinky IPv6 backwaters?

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by ticho on Sunday May 24 2015, @01:33PM

    by ticho (89) on Sunday May 24 2015, @01:33PM (#187159) Homepage Journal

    Wait, you can download beer? THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday May 24 2015, @03:20PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday May 24 2015, @03:20PM (#187170) Journal
      Does sound good, isn't it? Can only wish they wouldn't chase TPBar and keep the DRM crap out of the toilets ('cause the beer wants to be free, man) Careful with beertorrenting, though, most of it is pee2pee.
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @05:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @05:25PM (#187203)

      https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/09/01/ale-chief-white-house-beer-recipe [whitehouse.gov]