Brandon Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I'm sure that there will be a frantic scramble, but I don't >> expect it to last long enough for an IPv4 black market to >> form. > > There's already a black market in IPv4. I've seen plenty of offers to > "buy" address space through various underhanded schemes. Most take the > form of creating a shell company that the space is registered to and then > the buyer "acquiring" that company.
The most impressive such deal I know about took place already in 1995 when IBM bought a small norwegian company called "Norsk informasjonsteknologi" (or NIT). Most people didn't see anything interesting there. But I guess IBM noticed they "owned" 32/8. Probably don't qualify for the black market though. It was more of a grey deal. Bjørn
