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The shady world of IP leasing

acid.vegas published 2026-03-0311 min read

The IPv4 "exhaustion" is not real. The addresses got hoarded and the market devolved into a wild sub-leasing economy where anyone can choose where their IPs appear from, who owns them on paper, and scrub them clean of any history.

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