There are 16,777,216 IPv4 addresses in a /8.
Many companies lease those addresses for $10 per month.
It is common for a broker to take one month as their annual fee in the real
estate market.
Given the above...that would mean a /8 leases for $160,777,216 per year.
Will AT&T and the other companies be prepared to pay ICANN that each year ?
...will that be split with Lucent ?
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
012/8 AT&T Bell Laboratories Jun 95
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What about ARIN, RIPE and APNIC ?
Will they be paying that each year to ICANN for *each* of the /8s they have ?
Does ICANN need that much revenue from Address Space Leasing with the $1 per
domain per year fee?
....which may yield ~$50,000,000 a year...
Should domain name fees subsidize address space users ?
Why does ARIN pay ICANN and not AT&T ?
Jim Fleming
2002:[IPv4]:000X:03DB:...IPv8 is closer than you think...
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt