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IPv4 address traders delay the Internet's collapse
Posted by: Jordi on Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 10:19 PM
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When Microsoft recently agreed to buy 666,624 IPv4 addresses from bankrupt Nortel you might have asked, at least I did, how this was possible. No mechanism existed in the IP address allocation system for one owner to sell addresses to another.
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