“The scarcity value… ” Hosting companies announced IPv4 address increase

As the value of scarce IPv4 addresses continues to rise due to IPv4 address exhaustion, Germany’s leading hosting company, Hetzner, has announced an increase in the price of IPv4 addresses.

On July 28, 2021, Hatsner said that RIPE, the European IP address management agency, stopped allocating IPv4 addresses because IPv4 addresses were almost exhausted. As a result, the company has suffered economic losses in order to maintain its price, but since the price has recently risen sharply, unfortunately, it has announced that the price of IPv4 addresses must be increased.

If you order a new IPv4 address through Hatsner after August 2, 2021, you will usually have to pay an installation fee in addition to the monthly fee. After January 3, 2022, the monthly rate will also increase. For example, the current monthly fee per IPv4 address is €0.84, but orders placed after August 2, 2021 will require an installation fee of €19. After January 3, 2022, the monthly fee will increase to 1.7 euros.

In the announcement of the IPv4 price increase, Hatsner said that IPv4 addresses are likely to remain in high demand in the future. Therefore, the value of IPv4 addresses continues to rise and he believes that the price will need to be raised again in the future. said it could be It revealed the possibility of raising the price of IPv4 again until IPv6 is deployed.

Regarding this Hatsner price increase announcement, because there are many services that do not support IPv6, there are few options, such as switching to IPv6 or having only one ISP in Switzerland that natively supports IPv6. There are many reasons why the IPv6 transition does not proceed, such as the fact that it has been detected as

Of course, if you look at the IPv6 usage of Google users disclosed by Google, the percentage of IPv6 usage is increasing every year, and it is approaching 35% by 2021. According to this situation, Google is proceeding with IPv6 response, such as making external IPv6 addresses available to virtual machine instances in Google Cloud on July 20, 2021. Related information can be found here.