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

What's wrong in /22 hoarding? How does it abuse the system?
06 Май 2015 г. 9:30 пользователь "Max Tulyev" <mtl at netassist.ua> написал:

> 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?
>
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