[address-policy-wg] Hoarding /22 out of 185/8

Yes, that's the price of *clean* IPv4 /22 on the market, without any
trackable criminal history.
Yes, spammers *can* register a new LIR for /22. And I believe they (or
somebody for them) *do* that.
No, people buy clean /22 *not* only for sendind spam. Good business want
good IPs and wish to pay some money for that.
BUT, some good companies don't want/can't start-up a horde of LIRs using
a horde of shell companies, and one /22 is as small as not visible for
them. They need /16 for example, and wish to pay some money for just
buying a network. The price I know is from $6 to $15 per IP.

That's the source of that hoarding /22 business. If you want to
eliminate it really - the only real way is to kill a profit.

On 04.05.15 14:50, Tomasz SLASKI wrote:
> $10k for /22 is the speculative price of 'virgin space' offered for
> spammers, who buy /22 and then burn it out on every blacklist in the
> World, making the addresses practically unusable for long time. Who
> havinghealthy brain is buying /22 for $10k, for 'normal' purposes, if he
> can buy with no questions /22 by just opening a new LIR?