Re: IP's and ISP going out of business [7:35850]

From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 13:41:43 GMT-3


   
>If a company has a block of public IP's assigned to them via their ISP, and
>that ISP goes out of business, can a company transfer those IP's to a
>different ISP? I don't think so, but maybe I'm wrong.

ARIN's rule is that the addresses can be transferred only when the
failing company is acquired, and then only to the acquiring company.
Companies cannot sell or permanently give address space to others, a
rule that was made to discourage speculation.

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