<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">No worries, I think I was clear about it being speculation on my part.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regardless of how you acquire the addresses, I think my point stands about</div><div class="">the fact that for the most part, leasing is making addresses available that probably</div><div class="">wouldn’t make it to the transfer market.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 23, 2021, at 18:05 , Mike Burns <<a href="mailto:mike@iptrading.com" class="">mike@iptrading.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><div class="">Hi Owen,<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Actually I don't approach address owners in any way.<br class=""></div><div class="">I rely on incoming business.<br class=""></div><div class="">I was always afraid of being accused of mining Whois for commercial reasons.<br class=""></div><div class="">Imagine my naivete!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,<br class=""></div><div class="">Mike<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="zmail_extra_hr" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="zmail_extra" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true"><br class=""><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1" class="">---- On Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:54:08 -0400 <b class="">Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" class="">owen@delong.com</a>></b> wrote ----<br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote style="margin: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">> On Sep 23, 2021, at 16:25 , William Herrin <<a href="mailto:bill@herrin.us" target="_blank" class="">bill@herrin.us</a>> wrote: <br class="">> <br class="">> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 4:15 PM Mike Burns <<a href="mailto:mike@iptrading.com" target="_blank" class="">mike@iptrading.com</a>> wrote: <br class="">>> I add value by transferring cash to somebody else in the hope I can lease the purchased IPv4 out for a profit before China and the DoD dump addresses on the market. <br class="">> <br class="">> Hi Mike, <br class="">> <br class="">> ARIN leases addresses to you. You turn around and lease them to <br class="">> someone else at a higher price. You add nothing in the process, no <br class="">> network services or anything like that. The lessee can't rent them <br class="">> directly from ARIN, not because of cost or risk or whatever but ARIN <br class="">> doesn't have any left to rent. It's about as straightforward an <br class="">> example of rent seeking as you can get. <br class=""> <br class="">That’s not likely the real situation, however… <br class=""> <br class="">Likely, Mike does research and fines underutilized addresses and approaches <br class="">the current registrant and asks if they’d be interested in receiving MRC in <br class="">exchange for the ability to use those addresses. Mike then takes a risk and <br class="">begins paying said registrant monthly/quarterly/yearly/whatever for the <br class="">use of those addresses at some wholesale leasing price. Then he turns <br class="">around and tries to find an entity with need that (for whatever reason, <br class="">capital intensity, temporary need, etc.) wants to lease rather than buy <br class="">a block of addresses and provides them. Yes, for all the obvious reasons, <br class="">the price he charges to lease to his customer is higher than the price <br class="">he pays to his supplier, but he’s basically a retailer adding value in the <br class="">form of acquiring the wholesale goods and matching them to the needs <br class="">of the retail customer. <br class=""> <br class="">ARIN is not finding the sources of addresses who are willing to lease, <br class="">but not sell… ARIN Is not even finding the sources of addresses who <br class="">are willing to sell. Brokers are fulfilling that role for sales and are the <br class="">most likely ones to be fulfilling that role for leasing as well. <br class=""> <br class="">Owen <br class=""> <br class=""></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>