As of February 2022, the IPv4 transfer market continues to show a stabilized trend as it relates to demand for IP transfers over the past 9 months. The transfer requests increased from 132 in January to 137 in February, demonstrating an insignificant increase of +4%. While the trend seems to be very consistent, there is still a -30% decrease of IPv4 transfer requests since the IPv4 crash in May of 2021.
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2022 begins with a market stabilization, albeit much lower than just 1 year ago. ARIN’s IPv4 transfer requests for the month of January was 132 (as demonstrated by the dark blue bar graph below), which is still down -30% since the IPv4 crash in May of 2021. More importantly, transfer requests are still down -20% compared to the average of the last 3 years. It looks like the IPv4 transfer market has established the “New IPv4 Norm” as it relates to the demand on a monthly basis. So what does that mean for prices moving forward?
As news and social media platforms around the world continue to spread information about the coronavirus and its potentially negative impact on our health, lives, and businesses, it can be difficult to determine what is real or manufactured.