President and Co-founder at Avenue4 LLC
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Marc has been an active participant and influencer in the IPv4 trading market since well before its public emergence in March of 2011 with the announcement of the Nortel and Microsoft transaction. Marc started his IPv4 practice while a partner in the information and communications technology boutique law firm of Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby, LLP (“LB3”).
He has served as principal advisor to many of the largest IPv4 block holders over the past 6 years—providing his clients with strategic and tactical advice that allows them to assess their IPv4 assets, quantify the risks and rewards of IPv4 market participation, and pursue monetizing strategies effectively.
Marc specializes in structuring their IPv4 conveyance arrangements to minimize transactional frictions, mitigate risks, optimize deal size and timing, and enhance value for both parties. Drawing from his senior-level contacts at many leading technology, investment banking, and brokerage firms, Marc has formed collaborative relationships to develop and deliver solutions that address key IPv4 trading and transfer market challenges. Marc also routinely works (constructively) with Internet governance stakeholders to promote progressive IPv4 registration and transfer policies and practices.
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On September 24, 2015, the free supply of IPv4 numbers in North America dwindled to zero. Despite fears to the contrary, IPv4 network operators have been able to support and extend their IP networks by purchasing the IPv4 address space they need from organizations with excess unused supply through the IPv4 market. The IPv4 market has proved to be an effective means of redistributing previously allocated IPv4 numbers, and could provide enough IPv4 addresses to facilitate the Internet's growth for several more years while the protracted migration to IPv6 is underway. more
Two weeks before depletion of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) IPv4 free pool in September 2015, we published an article recommending that the ARIN community adopt transfer policies that encourage trading transparency and improve whois registry accuracy. By eliminating needs justification as a pre-condition to updating the registry, we argued that ARIN could eliminate existing policy-based barriers that have kept many otherwise lawful and legitimate commercial transactions in the shadows. more
Many C-level executives are unaware their IT organizations could be sitting on a lucrative sellable supply of unused IPv4 addresses. Assessing and executing on the opportunity takes planning, but there's a clear path for getting it done. In 2014 and 2015, buyers had their pick of large block holders with millions of available and unused numbers. This surplus allowed large buyers to shop around for the lowest offer and, as a result, drive prices down to a low of $4/number. more
When 2015 began, there were several million IPv4 numbers still in the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) IPv4 free pool, ARIN was processing 4-5 unique IPv4 transfer transactions per month, and fewer than 5 million numbers had been transferred publicly in the prior 12 months. The end of 2015 told a different story. In late September, the ARIN free pool was depleted. more
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