<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Bill,<br></div><div><br></div><div>We can quibble about semantics, but let's go with your verbiage:<br></div><div><br></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="align-left">If I run a network and qualify
for an /18 right now, can I go to ARIN and lease one? I must either <i>pay someone to release their addresses to ARIN to lease to me</i> or lease one from a (non-ARIN) 3rd party.<br></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="align-left"><br></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="align-left">And the amount I must pay (commonly referred to as the Purchase Price in most IPv4 transfer contracts, whether I'm technically "buying" it or not), is significantly more than either typical lease rates or ARIN's annual fees. My point is that 3rd party lessors do provide a service that ARIN does not.<br></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="align-left"><br></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="align-left">Regards,<br></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="align-left"><br></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="align-left">Tom Fantacone<br></div><div><br></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></div><div class="zmail_extra" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true"><div><br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 12:42:52 -0500 <b>William Herrin <bill@herrin.us></b> wrote ----<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px;"><div>On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 9:40 AM Tom Fantacone <<a href="mailto:tom@iptrading.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);">tom@iptrading.com</a>> wrote: <br>> If I run a network and qualify for an /18 right now, can I got to ARIN and lease one? I must either buy one on the transfer market <br> <br>Tom, <br> <br>I think you misunderstand the transfer market. You don't buy addresses <br>on the transfer market. You lease addresses from ARIN and then pay <br>someone on the transfer market to release their addresses to ARIN for <br>lease to you. <br> <br>Regards, <br>Bill Herrin <br> <br> <br>-- <br>William Herrin <br><a href="mailto:bill@herrin.us" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);">bill@herrin.us</a> <br><a href="https://bill.herrin.us/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);">https://bill.herrin.us/</a> <br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>