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IPv4 /19

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dctech9

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Trying to find where to buy some IPv4 /19'.
Having no luck with this.

Any place suggestions to look at?
 
Agreed, we need more details. Simply "acquiring" a /19 block of Public IPs isn't "impossible" strictly speaking, but it might as well be if you're just looking to buy the IP Addresses. It takes an immense amount of capital, legal status, equipment, and a long list of documentation proving what you're using the IP Addresses for to even consider opening up the conversation. You can't just go "buy" IPv4 addresses. They're incredibly scarce and would have been bought up by speculators a long time ago if allowed.

Your best bet is to go to whoever your Datacenter or Services Provider is, but you have an up-hill battle if you aren't representing a very large organization with specific needs.
 
The auction model won't do any good though if he hasn't gone through the ARIN and RIPE pre-approval processes (that note some of the points I made above), not to mention it still requires meeting with the relative authority (ARIN and RIPE) as the buyer with the seller to arrange the transfer of the block. Even if you do have the capital and the plan, a situation like this really demands a lawyer (or team of lawyers) to sort out.

Who knows, maybe the OP really is prepared to take all that stuff on. The nature of the question though made me think he might be severely underestimating the amount of time / money / effort that goes into buying large blocks of IP space.
 
Thanks for the extra explanation, thecoolnessrune. I don't work for an ISP, so I had no idea that you need approval from your local registry too. Indeed, seems a lengthy and expensive process.

The first job I got, in 1989, we had an official /16. It was a research institute with a few thousand employees. Having 64k ip-addresses seems now to be a bit overkill. But at the time it was easy to get a /16, I guess. Weird to think that that /16 is now worth around 1 million dollars/euros.

At my second job (the computer science department of an University), we had a /16 and several /24s. For just a hundred staff and a few hundred students.

I think we'll still have IPv4 around 20 years from now.
 
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