There are 16,777,216 IPv4 addresses in a /8. Many companies lease those addresses for $10 per month. It is common for a broker to take one month as their annual fee in the real estate market. Given the above...that would mean a /8 leases for $160,777,216 per year. Will AT&T and the other companies be prepared to pay ICANN that each year ? ...will that be split with Lucent ? http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space 012/8 AT&T Bell Laboratories Jun 95 ====== What about ARIN, RIPE and APNIC ? Will they be paying that each year to ICANN for *each* of the /8s they have ? Does ICANN need that much revenue from Address Space Leasing with the $1 per domain per year fee? ....which may yield ~$50,000,000 a year... Should domain name fees subsidize address space users ? Why does ARIN pay ICANN and not AT&T ? Jim Fleming 2002:[IPv4]:000X:03DB:...IPv8 is closer than you think... http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt