IP Transfers - Lessons Learned
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This document summarizes statistics on IPv4 address transfers seen by an IPv4 broker. It discusses IPv4 transfer policies and statistics for several regional internet registries (RIRs) including APNIC, ARIN, and RIPE NCC. Key points include a steady increase in the number of IPv4 address transfers and prefixes transferred each year. Over 5 million IPv4 addresses were transferred in the first half of 2015 alone. The document also provides lessons learned from brokering IPv4 transfers.
IP Transfers - Lessons Learned
- 1. Elvis Daniel Velea, 8 September 2015 Recognised IPv4 Broker/Facilitator in: IPv4 Transfer Statistics as seen by a Broker Elvis Daniel Velea Chief Executive Officer APNIC40 - 8 September 2015
- 2. Elvis Daniel Velea, 8 September 2015 Transfer Statistics - APNIC • Policies for transfers: – INTRA-RIR policy since February 2010 - First IPv4 transfer in Nov. 2010 – compatible INTER-RIR transfer policy with ARIN since August 2011 • Run-out on 15 April 2011 • 2,627,840 IPs transferred from ARIN in 2015 • Transfers statistics up to 1 August 2015 2 Year Number of Transfers Number of IPs 2010 2 2,304 2011 34 1,611,264 2012 84 1,821,686 2013 100 1,941,756 2014 163 3,851,264 2015 325 5,3314,56
- 3. Elvis Daniel Velea, 8 September 2015 Transfer Statistics - APNIC 3 0 12,5 25 37,5 50 0 400000 800000 1200000 1600000 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q3 2013 Q4 2013 Q1 2014 IP addresses Transfers
- 4. Elvis Daniel Velea, 8 September 2015 Transfer Statistics - ARIN • Policies for transfers: – INTRA-RIR policy since June 2009 - First IPv4 Transfer in Oct. 2009 – compatible INTER-RIR transfer policy with APNIC since July 2012 • Run-out expected in a few weeks – 0.00130 /8 still available (85 /24s) • Total transfer number up to 1 July 2015 4 Year Number of Transfers Number of IPs 2009 20 17,408 2010 2 8,192 2011 53 1,931,776 2012 33 6,328,064 2013 47 5,671,168 2014 89 4,037,120 2015 142 15,502,720
- 5. Elvis Daniel Velea, 8 September 2015 Transfer Statistics - ARIN 5 0 10 20 30 40 0 1000000 2000000 3000000 4000000 Q4 2012 Q4 2013 Q2 2015 IP addresses Prefixes
- 6. Elvis Daniel Velea, 8 September 2015 Transfer Statistics - RIPE NCC 6 • Policies for transfers: – INTRA-RIR policy since Dec 2008 - First IPv4 Transfer in Oct. 2010 – no INTER-RIR transfer policy yet (expected to be implemented this summer) – 2014-05 last call until 03 April 2015 • Run-out on 14 September 2012 • Number of transfers increased dramatically since IPv4 policy clean-up • need-based removed • most important - registration Year Number of Transfers Number of IPs 2012 8 65,536 2013 132 1,977,344 2014 551 9,635,328 2015 1932 5,999,360
- 7. Elvis Daniel Velea, 8 September 2015 Transfer Statistics - RIPE NCC 7 0 225 450 675 900 0 1250000 2500000 3750000 5000000 Q4 2013 Q1 2014 Q2 2014 Q3 2014 Q4 2014 Q1 2015 Q2 2015 IP addresses (x1000) Transfers
- 8. Elvis Daniel Velea, 8 September 2015 V4Escrow’s prediction comes true • V4Escrow was asked during Menog14 to make a prediction on the number of IPs transferred in 2014. We estimated a /8 will be transferred and were 98% right. Our stats did not include Legacy transfers as these are not made public. • V4Escrow has brokered more than 2 million IP addresses in 2014 worth over 22 million USD. • Number of IPv4 transfers from ARIN to APNIC increasing but not dramatically • Continuous increase of IPv4 transfers in the RIPE Region • Number of IP transfers from and within ARIN increased visibly in 2015 • We expect to see an increase of IPv4 transfers from ARIN to RIPE once the Inter-RIR transfer in RIPE is approved. • We estimated at Menog15 (April 2015) that we will see more than 4 /8s being transferred globally in 2015. Up until August we have seen 26,833,536 IPs transferred - 1.6 /8 (and ARIN’s August is not included). 8
- 9. Elvis Daniel Velea, 8 September 2015 Lessons learned • Get pre-approval from APNIC in advance + have a budget approved • Have a price in mind when you contact a Broker or the other party for the transfer. • Contact us if you need a blacklist report on the IP block - otherwise, check with major blacklisting providers. • Contact Geo-IP providers once you transfer an IP block - your customers will be seen in the country of the transferor • If you are they Buyer - request transferring company to forward you abuse reports for the IP addresses transferred to you • Start routing immediately, hijacks do happen very often • If you do not transfer the IP block through a broker, make sure the person that you talk to is authorised to transfer it to you. Ask for PoA (Power of Attorney). 9