Financial report release reveals prices of 4 million IP addresses purchased by Amazon in 2019



The frequency band '44.0.0.0/8' was allocated for amateur radio in 1981 and has been used as 'AMPRNet' for experiments on digital communication via radio. However, due to the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, 4 million addresses, which are part of the addresses, were sold in mid-2019. Who was the seller and what the price was was hidden because of the non-disclosure agreement, but one year later, the financial report was released, and the price was revealed with the other party. Did.

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https://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2020-October/080028.html



Sale of amateur radio AMPRnet TCP / IP addresses raised $ 108 million | Amateur Radio News
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2020/october/sale-of-amateur-radio-amprnet-tcp-ip-addresses.htm

The sale of AMPRNet's IP address itself was announced on the official website of ARDC, the managing organization, at the time of sale in 2019. In this question and answer session, '44.192.0.0/10' was sold, which is about 4 million IP addresses, and the IP addresses that were not planned to be used are worth due to the lack of IPv4 addresses. It is disclosed that it was sold in the meantime.

AMPRNet | Amateur Radio Digital Communications
https://www.ampr.org/amprnet/

However, it was only revealed that the person who purchased it was 'a fairly large company', and the amount was not specifically disclosed as 'agreement to not disclose it until the time of tax filing'. As a hint, it was shown that 'in 2018, it was 17 dollars (about 1800 yen) per case, which is higher than that time.'

A year later, the financial report was published, revealing that the buyer was Amazon.

The purchase price by Amazon was 108 million dollars (about 11.4 billion yen). This is $ 27 (about 2900 yen) per address, and you can see that it was higher than the price in 2018 as shown in the question and answer session at the time of purchase.

The money received by ARDC at this time is used for grants and scholarship programs related to digital communication including amateur radio, and support for AMPRNet operation, and is continuously used for at least $ 5 million (about 530 million yen) annually. Scheduled to be subsidized. In fact, it is subsidizing the digital communication business for 2.5 million dollars (about 210 million yen), and the program is still in its infancy.

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