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Is is now possible to purchase either a single IPV6 address or blocks of them considering how many there are available?

I've come across a few questions on here but most of them from what I can see are referring to IPV4 addresses such as this one.

Alexis Tyler
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You don't have to buy IPv6 addresses. There are so many, they have no individual value. They are given away for free in blocks as large as 2^80 (over 1.2 septillion) at a time (a /48 from Hurricane Electric's tunnelbroker.net).

If your ISP supports IPv6, they will automatically assign you at least 2^64 addresses, which is the minimum for a single LAN (really!).

If your ISP does not support IPv6, you can tunnel IPv6 over your IPv4 ISP to a free service like tunnelbroker.net.

Spiff
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You can apply for a block of addresses from Arin

But they are not cheap

Your Internet Service Provider can give you some for free. if they use IPv6 that is.

Moab
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