Analyzing IPv4 Trades with Gnuplot

45 todsacerdoti 10 6/9/2025, 1:08:00 AM ipv4a-5539ad.gitlab.io ↗

Comments (10)

victorbjorklund · 56m ago
Anyone has an idea why price dropped since 2022?
AndrewDucker · 12m ago
IPv6 is now up to 49% [1] - it's possible that there's just less demand for IPv4 addresses.

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

suncore · 23m ago
Maybe the buyers started migrating to IPv6 when they saw how expensive IPv4 addresses are and there is a delay before they actually migrate. IPv4 addresses are way more expensive than I thought, upwards of $60 per address, jeez...
ta1243 · 2m ago
If you think they're worth $60 an address then you can make a fortune buying them at half the price at https://auctions.ipv4.global/prior-sales

At 5% roi though, even $60 an address would be $3 a year. Address owners typically charge far more -- Amazon for example charges $43 an address per year.

jiggawatts · 46m ago
My best guess is that the public clouds stopped expanding after the end of ZIRP because startups vanished overnight and demand dried up.
wodenokoto · 4h ago
For something called "with Gnuplot", I was expecting it to be just as much a gnuplot tutorial, or at least a "show off" of how to code plots using gnuplot.

But other than that, it was a really nice analysis.

pastage · 1h ago
https://gitlab.com/Lockywolf/ipv4a/-/blob/3db4a65b11bc60b091...

I think it is fine to hide the source code for it, it is a tutorial of sorts.

zX41ZdbW · 5h ago
What is the data source?
57473m3n7Fur7h3 · 5h ago
The start of the linked post says:

> The data in this demo is taken from the ipv4.global auction.

So I assume either by scraping https://www.ipv4.global/ or from readily prepared downloads of data from them. Haven’t looked around the site to see if there is any prepared data downloads available.