IPv4 (Internet Protocol Version 4) is a 32-bit addressing system that provides unique numerical identifiers for devices on a network. With IPv4 address exhaustion, a secondary resale market has emerged, where organizations buy and sell unused addresses to meet ongoing demand, while IPv6 adoption gradually replaces IPv4 for scalability.

Brander Group is a qualified brokerage firm to buy and sell IPv4 addresses in the ARIN, APNIC, and RIPE NCC regions

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What is a Proxy IP Address?2024

What is a Proxy IP Address?

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Proxy servers are significant in maintaining online privacy and security. Stay informed and protected when browsing the web.
Roller Coaster IPv4 Market 
November 20222022

Roller Coaster IPv4 Market – November 2022

This year, the IPv4 Transfer Market has proven to become more volatile with each new month, seemingly mimicking trends of the global roller-coaster stock market. Large cloud companies, hosting providers and Internet service providers are continuing to purchase vast amounts of IPv4 address blocks from large enterprises. In turn, this is causing one-off /17 and /16 IPv4 subnets from other suppliers to sit in the market longer than usual, causing prices to stabilize and ultimately decrease. How does this affect the rest of the market?
What is CIDR? – Classless Inter-Domain Routing2022

What is CIDR? – Classless Inter-Domain Routing

Understand CIDR and its impact on IP address allocation. Explore how it revolutionized the management of IPv4 addresses.
How to Choose an IPv4 Broker2024

How to Choose an IPv4 Broker

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RIPE Provider Aggregatable (PA) & Provider Independent (PI) IPv4 Addresses serve distinct purposes within the internet addressing landscape.
Understand the role of IPv4 in internet traffic routing. Explore the challenges it faces and the need for the transition to IPv6.2024

What is IPv4? – Internet Protocol Version Four

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Understand the role of IPv4 in internet traffic routing. Explore the challenges it faces and the need for the transition to IPv6.
ARIN IPv4 Transfers January 2022

The “New IPv4 Norm” – IPv4 Transfers January 2022

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?
ARIN IPv4 Transfers October 2021

ARIN IPv4 Transfer Volatility October 2021

While we have had a strong run and increase in IPv4 demand over the previous 3-4 months, October seemed to have slowed down a bit.  The total number of IPv4 transfer requests in ARIN dropped to 143, which is down -16% from 171 requests in September and -12% from the 163 average requests over the course of 2021.
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ARIN IPv4 Transfers Increase September 2021

September IPv4 market trends have been very positive compared to what we saw as the average of the previous 3 months. Signs of life from IPv4 buyers are visible based on the increase of IPv4 transfers requested again from 167 in August to 171 in September.
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ARIN IPv4 Transfer Volatility August 2021

The month of August 2021 seems to have finally showed a positive trend in the IPv4 transfer market. Figures for IPv4 transfers requested, indicating demand, and transfers completed, indicating supply, have returned to the values we saw at the beginning of the year.
China's Plan to Begin Eliminating IPv4 Usage in 2023

China’s Plan to Begin Eliminating IPv4 in 2023

The Cyberspace Administration of China plans to phase out IPv4 usage by implementing large scale IPv6 adoption in three stages ending in 2030. This could potentially impact the global IPv4 market as Chinese companies could sell off existing IPv4 addresses.