alt Hacker NewsDo you have any example where leasing an ipv4 block from a NIC directly costs more than 5$ per IPv4 address per year?
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Sha1rholder • yesterday at 9:10 PM
China has very few IPv4 addresses per capita. Here in Hangzhou, China, I have to pay China Telecom 850 CNY per year just to get an IPv4 address. That's not a trivial amount of money for us. And among the three major telecom operators, only one even offers this service.
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Hizonner • yesterday at 7:10 PM
Counting the cost of creating the company so you can actually deal directly with a NIC?
Every. Single. Individual. End. User. Device. Should. Be. Addressable. Given that there are more such devices out there then there are IPv4 addresses to begin with, cost doesn't even come into it.
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Yes. My ISP will rent me a single IPv4 address for $10 per month. Or I can use DHCP, where my IPv4 address can change at their whim.