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I honestly thought they were worth more than that as well. I've been surprised by the ability to lease a static IP from my ISP for $5/mo for years. I just assumed that they had a surplus, and that was simply the current market clearing price on a surplus they didn't want to outright sell.

Still, if you want to talk about deflationary value store, you could probably do worse than buying IPV4 addresses... :)

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If you come to think of it, $5/mo is an outrageous price. You can rent an Amazon LightSail VPS for $3.5/mo, which comes with a static IP address.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/#Elastic_IP_Add...

Pricing is about the same and it's guaranteed to you, not to a instance that may get shut down

They are actually free per that link.

> You can have one Elastic IP (EIP) address associated with a running instance at no charge.

Hetzner Cloud rents out static IPs to use with any instance for €1 per month. Less than a third of AWS but obviously not very useful if you don't use Hetzner Cloud otherwise.

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