Agreeing with the other replies about scarcity. Also wanted to comment that
address exhaustion affects web hosts particularly hard because "SEO experts"
continue to believe that if a site they work on does not have an exclusive IP,
they're being penalized by Google. They'll convince clients to migrate around
hosts until they find one that will allocate an address, so the choice is buy
address space or suffer if your platform is not otherwise unique.
On 8/4/20, 3:36 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Anne P. Mitchell, Esq."
<nanog-bounces+dhubbard=dino.hostasaurus....@nanog.org on behalf of
amitch...@isipp.com> wrote:
I know that a shortage of IPv4 addresses has been anticipated for quite
some time (literally decades), however, is there a shortage *right now*?
I ask, because Liquid Web is using it as an excuse to raise their prices:
"We're contacting you today to inform you of a change to your account. As
you may know, the global shortage of IPv4 addresses
(https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/ipv4/ipv4-run-out) continues to
impact web hosting companies around the world. ... Effective August 31st, we
will be updating our per IPv4 address price to $2.00 per IP."
Anne
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Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law
Dean of Cyberlaw & Cybersecurity, Lincoln Law School
CEO, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification
Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law)
Board of Directors, Denver Internet Exchange
Chair Emeritus, Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop
Former Counsel: Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS)
