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I’ve worked for a company that was barely using its /16. I know several individuals, including myself, with personal /24s.

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I recently released a /24 that I registered in 1992 and I hadn’t realized it was still mine.

ARIN was gonna charge me $100 to authenticate and recover the account, but once I asserted and notarized my letter of relinquishment, the process went real quick!

You could've recovered it and sold it for $7K, or rented it out for $500/month.

Dude /24s are worth at least $5,000

A /24 is currently worth between $5,000 and $9,000 USD. Did you get them a long time ago?

Yes, over 32 years ago. It was before ARIN and is considered a legacy block.

With your own /24 you can get an AS number and potentially BGP multi-home it.

Yes, I've already done that. I have the /24 tunneled to my home network.

That would be so cool to see your own AS in the global BGP table. I suppose I could still try this using IPv6

You can get that going pretty cheap through various RIPE LIRs!

None of which are any help when connecting to someone who doesn't have those.

I know, I'm just agreeing there's a ton of IP waste in the US. Early adopters were perhaps unjustly rewarded. InterNIC (before ARIN) would just about hand out IPs to anyone who could send an email.

During the dot-com crash I had to put a /16, some /17's and a /19 on one vlan and connected a 1U Linux box running Labrea Tarpit just so those ranges would respond to ping because InterNIC used to harass us for not utilizing all the space. They threatened a few times to take them back. AFAIK nobody nags like that any more. They probably should.

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