- IPV4.Global announces a diagram to use IPV4 addresses as guarantee
- This is the “first of its kind” loan system and promises great yields
- The global transition to IPv6 is always slow for many
Marketplace IPV4.Global revealed a “first of its kind” loan system where companies can lend using IPV4 addresses as guarantee.
The company explains that the system is built on previous work developed by Cogent, which offers notes supported by rented IPV4 address revenues which are guaranteed by the addresses themselves.
Unlike the Cogent model, however, IPV4.global customers can use their addresses directly as a guarantee while maintaining complete use.
IPV4 addresses are valid guarantees
This means that companies can guarantee funding while having access and using their addresses.
“We have simply successfully implemented our loan program for a data center operator so that they can develop their cloud activity, which makes us first and only business loans against IPV4 addresses today,” said Lee Howard, IPV4.global SVP.
“IPV4.Global works with customers to buy, sell, rent and borrow against IPV4 blocks, whatever its size, and has completed more transfers worldwide than any other supplier,” added the company in an ad.
The official version is not in detail, so we do not know if there are minimum or maximum IPV4 address requirements to qualify for a loan.
More broadly, IPV4.Global describes himself as a broker who transfers the IP addresses of companies that no longer need them for those who do, “the monetization of hidden assets that the company cannot even be aware of”. He negotiated the sale of more than 55 million IP addresses and made more than 3,000 transactions.
Despite the adoption of the IPV6, the IPV4 remains at high demand because the costs associated with the transition and the infrastructure changes can be high.
However, AWS began to charge companies to use IPV4 addresses in 2024 without adding costs for IPv6 addresses in the hope that more customers are updated.
