@CirclingBack404 @noIPv6@virginmedia its not just one company, theres a few. and theres more than ISPs that need IP addresses, datacentre providers need IPs too, likely more than ISPs. and then theres new regional ISPs who cant get IPv4 addresses so they can only really do either IPv6 or DS-LITE which is bad
@CirclingBack404 @noIPv6@virginmedia for RIPE, the IPv4 wait list is at just over 1000 LIRs, and the LIR at the front of the queue has been waiting for about 400 days to get a /24 IPv4 allocation
@CirclingBack404 @noIPv6@virginmedia you are confusing your ISPs pools of IPs and IANA's pool of available IPs
your ISP may have some available IPs in their pool for DHCP leases to their customers, and they just recycle IPs in that pool as people's leases expire and renew