[alaties]

If you have your own dedicated IP range and you are advertising routes correctly, then you're as close to ownership of your IP addresses as Google or Facebook are of theirs.

ARIN and RIPE control allocations, but do not control routing to allocated ranges.

[jsjohnst]

I think the point GP was making is that you don’t “own” IP addresses, you effectively “lease” them. If you don’t pay your ARIN (or others) dues, you’ll lose them.

[blfr]

Sure but that is also true of a domain name.

[jsjohnst]

Domains are much more vocal about expiration in my experience, but maybe that’s just the registrars I’ve used.