I mentioned this a while ago that I saw a black market opportunity for IPV4 addresses. Microsoft is one of the first to jump into the pool, it seems:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382616,00.asp
MS picks up 666,000 (ominous number, no?) IP addresses from Nortel. I’d expect this to continue. Look for big companies to buy other companies just to get their IP addresses.
In the long term, they’ll likely switch to IPV6, but it’s much cheaper to buy a range of IPV4’s in the short term than it is to upgrade every piece of computer hardware in the company.
Just thought it was interesting enough to post.
--kevin
