I think some providers in US are assigning more ip in these day so that they can justify more allocations before the last /8...
Prices are kept artificially low and will increase after the last phase will be in place.... Isn't it?
That's my take on it, yes.
If colocrossing was charging a buck per IP they wouldn't be where they are now. There are countless providers that couldn't
afford if the price suddenly hit $1/IP/m without some sort of OVH like 'ramp up'.
Honestly I'm not sure how that doesn't scare a provider... Your business is based off a month-to-month contract for IP space that is a finite resource. When that last /8 lands no one is getting more than a /22 unless they go buy some legacy space off the black markets.
Do these companies have fallback plans incase CC (or whomever, Burst also does very cheap space) decide the costs are too low?
I'm not trying to pick a fight here or slag any one provider. There is more than a few providers that will allocate IP's cheap and some of them doing it for obviously
bad reasons. There's at least a few hosts I know that willingly persue spammers & SEO farms.
Francisco