Anybody here broker I.P. addresses?

Factual Questions
1

If so, could you drop me a PM, please?

2

Bumping this up for Monday morning readers – no responses and no PMs yet and am keeping my fingers crossed…

3

You get an IP address from your service providers.

About 15 years ago the internet backbone people forced various service providers to consolidate address space.

If your IP address - let’s say 142.142.142.142 - is accessed via a given route, then every router in the world has to know how to find it, and it consumes a table entry in their router tables. (Actually, mainly only in the major backbone routers of the big service providers - routers deeper into the internet just say - “pass any outside traffic to my ISP’s edge gateway…”). So it’s simplest to consolidate.

To get to 142.X.X.X go to this router ( “ABC-BigISP.com”), and you don’t need to know anything more detailed unless you are that 142 range router. That router has a table entry for each range it knows about - 142.1.X.X, 142.2.X.X, etc. The 142.142.X.X now has a table entry for your range, etc.

So you are not going to get a vanity custom IP address unless you are going to set up a server at the location of the ISP who provides that address and then tunnel IP traffic to your real location. You get an IP address from the ISP who provides your service, and he allocates from the 254 or the 64,536 address allocated to him. (or some amount in between).

4

I might be able to get you a good deal on 127.0.0.1

5

Hey! According to Windows I’ve already purchased that one! Too many crims on the internets… :smiley:

6

Whatever he offers I’ll do it cheaper.

7

127.0.0.1. Phooey. That’s just a single IP address. I’ll give you a deal on 16.7 million addresses (everything from 10.0.0.0 through 10.255.255.255).

(Offer not valid in Alaska, Hawaii or when routed outside your private network.)

8

I’m looking for a broker because I have some (8 Class C’s) but am no longer in the biz to sell them myself.

I didn’t want to come right out and shill, but need a broker who is still in the business to work the deal for me.

9

Hold onto them. They’ll be more valuable in a year or so when the Internet is full.

10

They expire next February and I don’t want to pay the exorbitant renewal fees to keep them; I’d rather have them used while they are still viable.