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by wtch98 1226 days ago
2.0.0.0/16 and 2.2.0.0/16 are owned by Orange, a European company. I'm sure they'd be willing to lease 2.2.2.0/24 and 2.0.0.0/24 for a nominal fee

5.4.0.0/14 (so 5.5.5.5) is Telefonica Germany. Same thing there.

Mercedes owns 53.0.0.0/8 which feels like a nice number for DNS too.
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capableweb 1226 days ago
Telefonica and Orange are hardly companies that would just let you lease "valuable" ipv4 addresses without having to pay a hefty sum.
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andy_ppp 1224 days ago
If you only lease something the owner can at any time take your business and efforts from you.
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Terretta 1226 days ago
It's not the IP that's the problem.

It's the "anycast" mapping of the IP to geographically and network diverse hosts to connect the user to the "closest" (for some value of latency that stays within the data governance jurisdiction).

To do this, you basically have to own a large enough IP block that backbones will deal with it, and route map it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast

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