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IPv4 Broker Due Diligence

Doing due diligence before you buy IPv4 addresses is a critical activity.  Here are some tips on things to consider: When an IPv4 broker responds to your IPv4 RFQ, you want to ensure the broker has IPv4 addresses to actually fulfill the bid.  Otherwise you may be in for a long delay while the broker...
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Inter-RIR IPv4 Transfers at RIPE68

RIPE68 held in Warsaw, Poland marked the 25th anniversary of the Réseaux Internet Protocol Européens, the Regional Internet Registry for Europe and the Middle East. It was a well executed meeting with a large crowd of well over 500 attendees and many newcomers. I attended RIPE68 on behalf of IPv4 Market Group and presented the IPv4 Inter-RIR policy...
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IPv4 Market Group on ARIN33

I recently attended ARIN 33 in Chicago, my first in-person ARIN meeting, as Jeff Mehlenbacher, Executive VP of IPv4 Market Group, usually goes. The meeting spent the better part of two days on several policy proposals targeted at large global companies and small issues. There was a review of the statistics which say that there...
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2013 IPv4 Trading in Review

Would you believe that I have now been in the IP transfer business for four years? In January of 2010, I was working at Nortel as the Director of Network Engineering, leading the team looking into the monetization of Nortel’s IPv4 assets. This culminated in the sale of nine /16s to Microsoft in the spring...
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