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IP Allocation Policy

ARIN logo Each and every provider in North (or South) America is governed by ARIN's (http://www.arin.net) rules on IP allocation. Superb follows ARIN's IP policy on the allocation of IP address space as described in RFC 2050. IP address space is a very scarce commodity that is rapidly running out and must be used with great care and adhere to the rules.

IPs may be ONLY allocated for physical servers or cases where name-based hosting is not possible due to technological limitations not yet overcome (e.g. SSL). IPs may not, categorically, be allocated whereby not all are used for a valid, ARIN-mandated, purpose. Many other providers run out of their address space and are unable to get any more, as less (in some cases, much, much less) than 90% of what they have is being used - as customers usually request more IPs than they actually need, or abuse IPs by using them where name-based hosting should be used instead (ARIN has been truly cracking down on this abuse over the last six months especially). We are a responsible Internet citizen and will use and allocate IPs only as justified.

If you can justify any number of IPs, we'll gladly give them to you. All we need is your justification: explanation of why you need each one, the domain it's for, and why can't you use name-based hosting for it instead. Remember, every provider has to follow these rules. A few rogue ones who don't, generally have to later go and revoke IPs from their customers when they have run out and can't get any more. In the end it's all the same, and it's best to follow the rules to begin with (as we do, and urge all our customers to do also).

We examine each and every IP request to see if the domain name you need it for is currently using services that require an IP such as SSL, Name Servers, anonymous FTP, etc. It takes a long time and often, if the request is for 100+ IPs, it may take a few hours to examine the claim and arrive at the truly justified IP number we can allocate.

If you have been asked to come here and apply for IP addresses as per our policy, please provide the information requested below and click Next.

Ticket #, Order # or Invoice #:
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