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I can assure you the US is feeling the brunt of the IPv4 crunch. I'm building something that needs massive amounts of public address space and I simply can't get IPv4 addresses for it. I've asked multiple providers. You are LUCKY if you can get a /28 at this point. Hoarding. Rolling with IPv6 instead.

I get you have an interest in the Qatar/Wikipedia situation, but it seems to be unlikely due to IP address resource management issues. Probably more like tyrannical control, if anything.

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Then there are guys like me. I have a /24 routed to my home (pre-ARIN legacy space registered in the early 90's!)

Interested in running a micro cloud? See comment above.

AKA swamp space. I've got one of those, too.

I know of multiple providers who have gotten allocations in the last month (up to /19) and will be requesting another one myself in the near future. ARIN has plenty of IPs.

Right on. I'll keep looking then. I sorta gave up after two told me the same story. Probably need to talk to someone bigger.

Are you asking for more than you can immediately use? Elsewhere you mentioned having difficulty getting more than a /28. That's pretty much the largest block you can get without some paperwork to justify your immediate usage. If you haven't already, take a look at the ARIN requirements in https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#four23 and make sure you have your ducks in a row before you go back at it.

I just went shopping for vendors at my San Francisco datacenter and had no problem replicating my current /26 + /27. Some vendors offered a /24, even.

>I'm building something that needs massive amounts of public address space //

You piqued my interest, what?

Something I've been thinking about since Grub. An embarassingly distributed cloud coop, Bitcoin style using OpenStack, pools, and a compute exchange: https://github.com/StackMonkey/xovio-pool/blob/master/whitep.... I'm not the only one thinking about it: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?rep=rep1&type=....

Doing it solo now, but I need help.

This is because, as you may have found out already, ARIN is out of fresh IPv4. https://www.arin.net/knowledge/v4-v6.html

You may have better luck with other continents. Try AfraNIC.

I had absolutely no problem getting a /27 from my ISP here in Sweden the other week.

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