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IPv4 Scarcity Economics

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Symbolic illustration of Africa with a ledger book and a locked gate, overlaid with IPv4 address numbers, a courthouse silhouette, and network cables.

Story

What IPv4 scarcity tests at AFRINIC

AFRINIC is examined through ipv4 scarcity as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Africa region.

Jul 1, 2026
AFRINIC post-exhaustion legitimacy registry governance risk editorial illustration

Story

AFRINIC and the price of post-exhaustion legitimacy

AFRINIC is examined through post-exhaustion legitimacy as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Africa region.

Jul 1, 2026
ARIN IPv4 scarcity registry governance risk editorial illustration

Story

ARIN and the governance discipline of IPv4 scarcity

ARIN is examined through ipv4 scarcity as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the North America region.

Jul 1, 2026
ARIN post-exhaustion legitimacy registry governance risk editorial illustration

Story

What legitimises ARIN after IPv4 exhaustion?

ARIN is examined through post-exhaustion legitimacy as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the North America region.

Jul 1, 2026
RIPE NCC IPv4 scarcity registry governance risk editorial illustration

Story

RIPE NCC allocation choices under IPv4 scarcity

RIPE NCC is examined through ipv4 scarcity as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Europe and Middle East region.

Jul 1, 2026
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Asia-Pacific Regional ISP

SkyBroadband Provincial Network: Local Monopoly at the End of the Repair Path

Provincial broadband is not primarily won by brand, app design, or national advertising. It is won or lost on repair distance, backhaul scarcity, payment collection, and trust.

Jun 30, 2026
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Africa National Telecom

SCPT and the DRC Problem of Owning Infrastructure Without Monetising It

The Société Congolaise des Postes et Télécommunications, usually presented as SCPT SA or historically as OCPT, is best understood as a state infrastructure conversion problem. It is not just a postal company, not just a legacy telecom operator, and not a normal ISP. It sits at…

Jun 30, 2026
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Asia-Pacific Regional ISP

Apurva at the edge of a restricted Internet market: scarcity rents, dormant routing assets, and the economy of trust in Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste's Internet economy starts with scarcity, not scale. In a large and dense market, an ISP's bargaining power is generally read through subscriber numbers, fiber kilometers, tower portfolio, peering density, and market share.

Jun 29, 2026
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North America Cloud Services

Quick Server Hosting LLC and the Shadow Price of IPv4 Scarcity

Thesis: a small registry identity can count more than a small company

Jun 29, 2026
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Asia-Pacific Institutional

The Administrative Weight of a Single APNIC Entry

The available APNIC trace records a completed transfer of 103.100.140.0-103.100.143.255 from Shenzhen Blue Express Information Technology Limited to International Gateway Co., Ltd on December 29, 2022. Its significance is administrative: registry recognition can shape reliance…

Jun 29, 2026
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North America Institutional

ICM Registry AD LLC and political exposure in a scarce .adult namespace

Thesis

Jun 29, 2026
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North America Cloud Services

Owning the HBO Root: Scarcity, Brand Control, and the Economics of a Private Internet Namespace

Analysis of HBO Registry Services, Inc., operator of the.hbo top-level domain, and its defensive and strategic function as a brand control vehicle for the HBO group.

Jun 28, 2026
Abstract IPv4 address blocks pass through a registry gate, an unnumbered valuation range, network diligence, escrow milestones and an amber risk boundary.

Number Resource Society

IPv4 pricing starts with policy, provenance and net proceeds

An IPv4 block is not priced by prefix length alone. Transfer eligibility, registry history, routing and reputation evidence, transaction costs and the seller’s alternative use determine what a quoted price is actually worth.

Apr 29, 2026
Locale-neutral editorial illustration of five regional IPv4 registry hubs, a finite allocation ledger, a recorded transfer path, route validation and an IPv6 transition horizon

People

Why ISPs should manage IPv4 as a governed right, not real estate

Scarcity gives IPv4 addresses economic value, but registry policy, contracts and routing controls make them unlike land. Operators need an evidence-led inventory, not a property-price story.

Apr 29, 2026