The resellers market for IPv4 address space has just heated up. Microsoft has puchased 666,624 IPv4 addresses from the burned out shell of Nortel for the tidy sum of $7.5 million dollars. That works out to a little over $11 per IP address. That’s pretty expensive when you consider how much Nortel paid originally. This also make me worry about how quickly prices will inflate on the remaining address space that is floating around out there.

On another note, I guess Microsoft realized that since they had built poor, if any IPv6 support into their products for so many years, they better make certain they have enough v4 addresses.

via http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/03/25/microsoft-buys-666-624-ipv4-addresses-from-nortel-for-7-5-milli/