6 Apr
2010
6 Apr
'10
5:29 p.m.
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
As far as I can gather there was cold hard cash exchanging hands for 8.8.8.8 and 4.4.4.4 - fine for some people and in the ARIN region it's a lot more liberal in that sense,
To be clear, nobody paid ARIN for those addresses. They were already allocated to an ISP who agreed to let the DNS provider use them.
Sure - but if you were Level(3)/BBN/bla (not sure of specific history off the top of my head) would you do the SWIP or whatever for free, keeping the hole properly defined in filters/registry, etc? And for Google no less? :)