Most people here have probably heard of the term "IP address": an unique number for your computer on the internet. What many people don't know is that these numbers don't have an unlimited supply. I wonder if this can be turned into a market of which one could profit.
There are only about 4 billion unique addresses to go around in "IPv4".
But you buy them in blocks of 256, so there are only about 16 million "*stocks"*.
Given that certain regions are still expanding their digital infrastructure, they will be needing IP addresses to properly connect to the internet. But there are also old organizations in the USA that have a lot of old blocks lying around, barely used. This could make the market go in both ways with possibly high and low liquidity periods.
I think it's an interesting market and wonder if one could expand into it.
**What do y'all think?** Would it make sense? Can it even be profitable in the first place?
( I got the graphs from [https://auctions.ipv4.global/](https://auctions.ipv4.global/) )