ARIN Distributes IPv4 Addresses to Over 500 Organizations

October 14, 2025

ARIN distributed IPv4 addresses to 587 organizations on Friday, 10 October 2025. 421 organizations remain on its Waiting List. The organization waiting longest joined in June 2023. The next distribution from the waiting list will happen in early January 2026.

ARIN warns that future distributions depends “entirely upon the order, size, and quantity of IPv4 address blocks that ARIN receives and places back into its IPv4 inventory.” This means that organizational plans have to be very flexible as the wait could be 18 months but could be 30 or more.

Over 200 of the organziations on the list would accept a /24. These sell for just over $7,500 on the open market and can be leased from just over $100/month.

While the IPv4 market is somewhat global, the situation is similar elsewhere. LACNIC has over 1,700 organizations on its list and the RIPE NCC has 875 on its list. LACNIC estimates that its list will be cleared in 2034. The first on the RIPE NCC’s list has been waiting almost 18 months.

Unlike ARIN and LACNIC, the RIPE NCC only distributes /24s. But for all RIRs the addresses come from members who go out of business, so the rate of return and redistribution cannot be predicted.

APNIC does not run an IPv4 Waiting List.