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More Than 32,000 RadioShack IPv4 Internet Addresses Up for Auction July 20

​More than 32,000 RadioShack IPv4 internet addresses will be up for sale when Hilco Streambank, an intellectual property disposition firm, sells the RadioShack assets owned by General Wireless in a stalking-horse auction July 20 (see 1706090051), Hilco subsidiary IPv4auctions.com said…

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in a Monday announcement. The “internal and unused” RadioShack addresses will be offered in 20- to 24-bit “blocks,” it said. Though IPv4 addresses “remain a key component of growing networks,” the “free pool” of IPv4 addresses “reached exhaustion” in September 2015, it said: “Increasingly, organizations in need of IPv4 addresses are turning to private markets where brokerage firms have identified sellers among the thousands of address holders.” Bids for the July 20 auction are due July 18, it said.