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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 tathra on Sunday May 24 2015, @03:09PM

    by tathra (3367) on Sunday May 24 2015, @03:09PM (#187166)

    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!

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