IPbnb Is Now Live: A Transparent Marketplace for IPv4 Operators
IPbnb has officially launched – a purpose-built marketplace for IPv4 address transactions, designed for LIRs, hosting providers, and ISPs who treat IP resources as what they are: strategic infrastructure assets.
Artem Kohanevich
Co-Founder & CEO at IPbnb
Mar 4, 2026
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AI Summary
IPbnb has officially launched as a transparent marketplace for IPv4 address leasing, buying, and selling — built specifically for LIRs, hosting providers, and ISPs. The platform came out of a deliberate beta period focused on stability and compliance integrity, and is designed to treat IPv4 addresses as capital assets with real yield and allocation trade-offs. Listings include block history, routing status, reputation context, and transparent pricing — supported by a human support team rather than automated responses.
Behind the platform is an international team with firsthand experience as IPv4 investors, address holders, and operators. IPbnb's broader goal is to raise the standard of how IPv4 transactions are conducted — and to close the market education gap for both address holders and operators who may not yet be fully aware of their options.
After a deliberate beta period, IPbnb is open for business. We chose a quiet launch intentionally — prioritizing stability, compliance integrity, and real user feedback before any active promotion. The IPv4 market runs on trust, documentation, and operational precision. We held the platform to the same standard.
What IPbnb Is – and What It Is Not
IPbnb is a marketplace for IPv4 address leasing, buying, and selling. It is not a general-purpose IP broker, and it is not a registry. It is a transaction layer – built to reduce friction, improve pricing transparency, and give infrastructure operators a clear view of available blocks alongside their reputation context.
The platform is designed for operators who need to make allocation decisions quickly and correctly – with full visibility into block history, routing status, and market pricing.
The Market Context: Why Now Still Makes Sense
IPv4 exhaustion at the regional registry level is not a new development. What is newer is the maturing secondary market that has formed around it – and the growing gap between how operators think about IPv4 and how they manage it financially.
Most organizations holding IP blocks treat them as static infrastructure. IPbnb is built around a different premise: that IPv4 addresses have yield characteristics, carrying costs, and allocation trade-offs that deserve the same analytical attention as any other capital asset.
IPv6 adoption continues to progress, and coexistence with IPv4 remains the operational reality for most production environments – today and for the foreseeable future. That coexistence creates sustained demand. IPbnb is positioned within it.
The secondary IPv4 market already has participants. We see room for a marketplace that competes on transparency, compliance quality, and operational clarity – and that raises the overall standard for how these transactions are conducted.
There is also a market education gap worth addressing. Many address holders do not recognize that their IPv4 blocks are income-generating assets. Many operators who need address space are not aware that leasing is a viable alternative to outright acquisition. Part of IPbnb's role is closing that gap – helping both sides of the market make better-informed decisions.
What the Platform Offers
IPbnb was designed around the specific needs of LIRs, hosting providers, and ISPs. The core platform includes:
Transparent pricing on available IPv4 blocks, without opaque intermediary markups.
Clean block listings with reputation context – routing history, abuse record indicators, and RPKI status where available.
Support for leasing, buying, and selling transactions within a compliance-aware framework.
A streamlined process for LIRs managing capacity planning across multiple assignments.
Direct access to a growing inventory of blocks across multiple size ranges – from /24s to larger allocations.
Every listing includes the information an operator actually needs to assess risk and make a decision – not just a price and a CIDR block.
One more thing that matters in practice: responsive human support. IPv4 transactions involve real complexity – block history questions, transfer documentation, compliance edge cases. We made a deliberate decision to keep support human and accessible. When you reach out, you get a real person with market context, not an automated response queue.
The Team Behind the Platform
IPbnb is built by an international team with Ukrainian roots and US incorporation. That background matters operationally: the team brings both European RIR familiarity – particularly with RIPE NCC policy – and the structural foundation of a US-registered business. The platform is built to serve operators across regions, with compliance frameworks that reflect how IP transactions actually work across different registry jurisdictions.
Most of us have been active in the IPv4 market as investors, address holders, and operators. We know the friction points firsthand – and we built the platform we wanted to use ourselves.
At this stage, we do not overclaim scale. What we do claim is domain knowledge, technical precision, and a long-term commitment to building infrastructure that the IPv4 market can rely on.
Access the IP Catalogue
If you are managing IPv4 capacity – evaluating a lease, planning an acquisition, or looking to monetize idle address space – the IPbnb catalogue is now live.
Browse available blocks, review pricing, and assess block reputation data. The information you need to make the right allocation decision is there – without intermediary friction.
