alt Hacker NewsPSA that if you have a ham radio licence, anywhere in the world, there are IPv4 addresses available for you for the taking at ARDC (AMPR)[1].
You can either get a block of /24 to announce yourself (you've got to cover all the technical setup and costs of this) or use their free 44net.connect service and just organise a wireguard tunnel.
You cannot use it for anything commercial.
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aleph_minus_one • yesterday at 1:58 PM
But in many countries (including Germany), you are not allowed to encrypt your transmissions via ham radio, e.g. using TLS with such IPv4 addresses is against the law.
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tcdent • last Thursday at 7:58 PM
I have looked into acquiring an ipv4 block many times but never came across this. Thanks for the lead!
Ok so I was looking at the market rates for ipv4, and it appears that $20 per IP is a common figure, which means that a /24 block is worth about $5000.. so, what's the catch? And how many /24 blocks does ARDC have available, really?
I'm most curious to understand why didn't bad actors gobble up all those /24 blocks already.