I have invested in cryptos, stock markets, startups… and probably the most profitable assets ever were several ripe ipv4 prefixes that we owned for years. Insane.
How did you get them? I checked a few years ago to see if I could buy a /29 or something small and remember thinking I couldn’t do it as an individual.
We obtained them in late ‘00 for our tech company. We used them for several years, but the cloud was gaining momentum and we gave up using our own colo platform. We sold them in 2017, redistributing the benefits to the partners of the company as dividends. Fully compliant with the tax laws of my country, of course.
Ah, thanks. That’s kind of the impression I got. 20 years ago you could get them by asking, but now it’s much more difficult and you have to get them routed somewhere / use them right away.
The smallest routable network on the Internet is a /24, so you wont be able to buy/own anything smaller than that, you would usually rent from your service provider.
