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benjojo posted 06 Apr 2026 22:38 +0000

Hah, Cogent CEO seems to recognize that having the ability for customers to make RPKI ROA's on their space (aka, signing a ARIN agreement) made its IPv4 rentable there's a lot more appealing to customers!

Today, we're about 46% of our addresses are leased and approximately 4% of our addresses are allocated to customers at no cost. This is nothing new. It's been part of our strategy to win business since Cogent's inception. But we do still have half of our address space that is sitting fallow. We have greatly improved the marketability of that address space by being able to deploy RPKI or additional security features across those addresses, which have made them more desirable to counterparties.