@landley @pmevzek @jschauma @ryanc @0xabad1dea @ripencc mostly because addresses get reused (Dynamic IPs were always the norm for consumers!) and because big block allocations get sold off and deallocated.

• The fact that the #US #DoD has multiple /8 blocks hoarded that ain't even publicly routed is the most extreme example: The have enough static IPv4's to assign every past and current servicemember and every military vehicle one and would still have enough to spare.

• In fact they have enough static #IPv4's to give everyone in the USA one and would still have propably more to spare than the entire rest of #NATO & #ANZUS / #14Eyes' #MILINTEL have combined.

Instead we have a giant cottage industry that deals with the artificial scarcity of IPv4's like digital real estate brokers, collecting value-removing fees for every transfer they can make which is explicitly rewarding #GAFAMs like #Apple that got a /8 early on and are now propping up their corporate valuation because that address block alone is propably worth a billion if not more.