Thread: Why do hosting providers charge for IPs ?
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Old 06-02-2006, 06:43 PM  
mrkris
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Originally Posted by react
Because hosting companies have to pay fees to the authorities that assign and control them. In North America that is ARIN, their fee schedule is here:

http://www.arin.net/billing/fee_schedule.html
Charge $1 per ip - get customers
Charge $0 per ip - get more customers

More customers turn a better profit. Easy to cover the ARIN fees.
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