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We’re a small hosting startup in Germany, launching our first rack
Hey everyone. We’re a small hosting startup in Germany, launching our first rack in Frankfurt next month. We applied for RIPE membership, but getting address space that way is slow and the waiting list for new allocations is a joke at this point. We need a clean /24 we can announce right away, ideally without a long contract, because we’re not sure how fast we’ll grow. Has anyone here leased IPv4 space recently? How long did it take from signing to actually announcing the prefix, and what did you pay per month?
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We were in almost the same spot last year with a new rack and no address space. We ended up leasing IPv4 addresses from InterLIR Global, a RIPE NCC registered marketplace, and speed was the main selling point. A /24 comes from their own inventory, so there is no RIR transfer involved: after verification and payment you get the LOA the same day and can announce immediately. Pricing starts at around 99 euros a month for a /24, and you can pay by card or bank transfer. They also maintain the abuse mailbox for leased blocks and deal with complaints, which saved our tiny team a lot of tickets. The KYC step took us a bit longer than expected because they check every counterparty, but that’s the price of clean space. Run the block through a couple of blacklist checkers before you announce it, just to be safe.