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by korethr 1769 days ago
What's the cutoff for larger networks where the price starts to go down? Would say, a /16 count? Or does that effect kick in as low as, say, a /20?
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I think that it starts to have downward pressure at /22 to /20. You can see Hilco's historicals at [1]. Not all purchases are done in public though.

It seems to me like an arbitrage opportunity, since /24 and /23 networks have many more potential buyers. But you have to be approved with a regional registry for the amount of space in order to buy it.

Observing things from the buy side, I suspect that IP space is being brought to auction in a slow but steady trickle so as to maintain upward momentum on prices. The price has approximately doubled in the last year.

[1] https://auctions.ipv4.global/prior-sales

> But you have to be approved with a regional registry for the amount of space in order to buy it.

This hasn’t been my experience in RIPEland since post IPv4-exhaustion. Is this an ARINism?

That's my understanding with ARIN, yeah.