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: 3, Touché) by darkfeline on Monday May 25 2015, @06:18PM
Ignoring Facebook for the moment, Google (or your preferred search engine) being on IPv6 is meaningless if all of the sites turned up by it are not on IPv6.
Sort of like browsing product catalogs on a deserted island.
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