domain IPv4 exhausted - two .coms

[Rasbelin]

Wierd how these two were free and available for manual registration...

ipv4exhaustion com
ipv4exhausted com

Any takes on these?

IPv4 exhaustion (Wikipedia), Google gives 197 000 hits and Bing 76 400 hits. The topic is very widely covered and the expression usually used, except for ARIN, as their choice is IPv4 depletion. But anything starting with APNIC, RIPE, etc. cover the topic as IPv4 exhaustion.

As you probably know, the topic is ever more looming on the Internet and it especially affects ARIN, which has no more unallocated large /8 subnets. IPv6 migration is going slowly and companies like Verizon have done little.

I have no clue should I develop or maybe just see what some marketplace reveals as the demand for these?

 

[Nathan K]

What sort of end-user do you think would spend money on this domain? If you developed it, what information would you include that is not already available on Wikipedia?

I would value it at $0. I just don't see much money there, even if developed. Sure, it's a relevant topic. But that doesn't mean the domain is monetizable. Modern hardware is already ipv6 compatible, which has been mandated by US law (similar laws exist in many other countries as well).

 

[Rasbelin]

My idea is based on whatismyip.com and the IPv4 exhaustion counter of Hurricane Electric (free code, can be found at https://ipv6.he.net/statistics/). Easy address to check how far we are in the depletion. Then of course provide some basic information about the phenomenon (read: feed the robots with keywords), provide links to migration and exhaustion information by IANA, ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, LACNIC and AfriNIC. Could of course also provide direct advertising of consultants that are involved.

Sure, hardware supports it, but the whole process is massive because it's going to make consumers go nutters about their broadband connections at home, we see hardware and software issues, etc. And it's not really easy for business either. In my opinion this is next to Y2K in terms of how much work this warrants and within what timeframe. Nobody has made this mainstream hysteria yet, but count on me that someone will. Not saying these things to prove my reg is good, but to make a point about tech stuff is so easily fed with misinformation to the greater public.

When there's hysteria, you make loads of money.

 

[Nathan K]

Alright, I see where you are coming from. The hysteria would be unjustified, but that doesn't make it impossible. The reason why you haven't seen mass adoption in the United States is because the United States got first dibs on IP addresses, and little was left for other countries. This is why you have seen more widespread ipv6 adoption in recently developed countries such as China. Adoption will occur as the need arises.

 

[Rasbelin]

Well, the situation however still is that ARIN is the one running first out of IPs and for instance Microsoft already did so within their allocations. AfriNIC is the one with least issues, because so few will be online out of the total population before IPv6 is mainstream. Furthermore the really big issue are DCs, which mean that the US is eating up the ARIN IPv4 space faster than it should. Also allocations have in the past maybe even been too generous.

As for where I come from, well, RIPE has nothing to worry about. It's ARIN and LACNIC which are going to be in a tight spot. The Internet adoption rate is already that high within the are controlled by RIPE, so there's no a reason to be worried - yet.

My main issue is really how well the ISPs get it rolled out for consumer grade stuff and services. That's where I see the potential for an epic failure.