Crashed RadioShack flogs off its IPv4 stash
Found on The Register on Saturday, 08 July 2017
The 32,000-odd addresses will be sold off in /24 and /20 subnets by auction site IPv4Auctions.com, which specializes in the sale and resale of the increasingly valuable online space.
In April of this year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology threw open the doors on that approach when it announced it wanted to sell its very large /8 block of 16 million addresses in order to fund expansion of its IPv6 network.
Free market at work. Although IPv6 has been around for so long, IPv4 is still alive and kicking; and will be for many more years.