Like a emaciated crackhead sell its socks , bankrupt Bordershas resort to sell thing that do n’t in reality exist . That ’s right — the fellowship that once sell Ulysses and Jane Eyre is now hawking its assembling of IPaddresses .
The Borders Goodbye Email Is Like Watching Old Yeller in Slow Motion
After all of the shelving and fluorescent fixture electric light were auctioned off to avail fill Borders ’ debts , this was probably the most valuable thing the bushed company has left . The IPv4 internet address numbers , which swear out as cherished unique identifiers for WWW servers , have all been doled out . There are n’t any more combinations left . So although $ 12 for an IP address sounds kind of wretched , The Register reportsit was a record eminent terms — and the former bookseller fetched $ 786,432 in a cut-rate sale to a medical software business firm .
Oh Noes ! : The Internetz Is Almost Out of IP address
So , sad , or not so sorry ? Still sad , I think . [ The RegisterviaMaximumPC ]
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