IP addresses are now more expensive than domain names

Believe it or not, now that there are no more ip v4 addresses available directly from ICANN, IP addresses are now more expensive than domain names.

It was reported in The Register that Nortel Networks, the bankrupt networking hardware vendor, has sold 666,624 IPv4 addresses to Microsoft for $7.5m. That works out to $11.25 per IP address, which is more than the typical cost of a .com domain name. And lets not forget, these are just routing numbers so its not like there is any intellectual property or traffic associated with them.

ICANN said that this was an unusual case and it did not foresee black market trading of IPv4 allocated addresses as being a huge thing in the future. But only time will tell, since the world is out of IPv4 addresses and IPv6 is not yet implemented, we may be seeing some big dollars chasing these limited resources in the next few years!