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IPv4 Scarcity Economics
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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…
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.
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
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…
North America Institutional
ICM Registry AD LLC and political exposure in a scarce .adult namespace
Thesis
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.
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.
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.