Take the tour ×  Someone correct me please if I am wrong, I
could have sworn I read somewhere that class A Ip address owners
basically owned that space and IANA had no way to get them back
and it was possibly that they would be able to auction their own
IP space? Is this correct and if so does anyone have a link to
that source.  share|improve this question Class-based routing is
dead. Please see the following question for more details:
serverfault.com/questions/12854/cidr-for-dummies - they are now
called a /8 (the rest of your question is quite valid though) – 
Mark Henderson Jan 24 '11 at 22:38 add comment  closed as off
topic by theotherreceive, mrdenny Jan 24 '11 at 23:32   1 Answer
Once a /8 (Class A is a term that hasn't been technically useful
in over a decade) has been allocated, it can't be repossessed.
Companies who own /8 blocks can give them back, or resell them
as they see fit.  The reasons for this are technical. Once an
allocation has been given, it must be assumed that there are
devices consu