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Rob Evans
rhe at nosc.ja.net
Fri May 28 11:04:59 CEST 2021
Ronald, There are likely to be others on this list that know more about this than I do… > Has the UK government been so hard up for cash in recent years that it > has taken to selling off any spare /16 blocks that it happens to have > lying around? If so, who should I talk to about placing a bid for the > next one they decide to unload? That might not have been the motivation, but the result is the same, yes. The “Department for Work and Pensions” held 51/8, which was heavily used internally and on the Public Services Network, but not routed on the Internet. Every so often, a tech news article would pop up complaining about all this “unused” space lying around, or someone would send in a Freedom of Information request demanding to know what the government was doing with it(*). Around 2015, I presume that they decided it was less bother to start selling off the space than it was to cope with the comments, so that’s what they did — Microsoft and Sky bought some, other bits went elsewhere… Cheers, Rob (*) One such response from 2014 is here: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/214257/response/529770/attach/html/3/FOI2420%20Scott%20Mark%20WDTK%20Reply.pdf.html
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