Hi Nanog Community
Any idea please on the best way to buy IPv4 blocs and what is the price?
Karim -
Many folks make use of a broker for the purpose of finding an IPv4 address block – ARIN refers to organizations that aid others with transfers of address blocks as “facilitators”.
As a result of community concerns regarding less than stellar performance of some ARIN-listed facilitators, we recently relaunched the ARIN facilitator program with significantly more robust legal, accountability and transparency requirements – Qualified Facilitator Program - American Registry for Internet Numbers
This has resulted in a significant reduction in the number of organizations listed by ARIN as Qualified Facilitators, but there are plenty that meet the higher operational and customer satisfaction criteria and can be found here – Find a Qualified Facilitator - American Registry for Internet Numbers – any of them should be able to do a credible job in helping you obtain an IPv4 address block from the marketplace.
Best wishes,
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers
I might note that one of the qualified facilitators on the list recently “sold” me a block where the original entity which obtained it in the 1990s was still announcing it to all of their peers and trantsi after the wire transfer had been done, the ARIN process was done/ticket closed, and the block resided with my AS.
It took a significant amount of badgering the original block holder (an entity with which we had no pre-existing relationship or direct contacts into their engineering department) to get them to withdraw the announcement, which we did independently of the broker and quicker than they responded to us. So my message would be to do your own due diligence and investigation of IP space and don’t trust what the “broker” tells you.
I might note that one of the qualified facilitators on the list recently “sold” me a block where the original entity which obtained it in the 1990s was still announcing it to all of their peers and trantsi after the wire transfer had been done, the ARIN process was done/ticket closed, and the block resided with my AS.
Interesting. If you believe that the qualified facilitator failed in their duty to you (more specifically, if they did not live up to an aspect of the code of conduct – https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/transfers/facilitators/codeofconduct/) then please drop ARIN a message with the specifics to facilitator-support@arin.net
It took a significant amount of badgering the original block holder (an entity with which we had no pre-existing relationship or direct contacts into their engineering department) to get them to withdraw the announcement, which we did independently of the broker and quicker than they responded to us. So my message would be to do your own due diligence and investigation of IP space and don’t trust what the “broker” tells you.
Absolutely - always a good idea.
Thanks for feedback!
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers
I have used Eddie at iptrading several times over the yearsfor IP block purchases and never had this sort of issue, so would count this as a recommendation.
Regards,
Eddie Stauble
eddie@iptrading.com
855-IPTRADE (855-478-7233) Ext 107 Direct: 754-227-8423
Hey Tony/Eddie
I think your choice of email signature may have given away the game a little bit here
Regards
Ben Cartwright-Cox
No, Eddies is NOT me, I included his details to be helpful to the OP….
Ah, apologies on my part Tony, it did look at lot like a signature block and thus a amusing sock puppet SNAFU
All good, when I looked back at the email it does look somewhat disingenuous, I should have really put, here is his details if the OP wants them.