Savvas Bout founded Prefixx in 2018 to make IPv4 transfers and leasing straightforward for the people who actually run networks. He brings more than 20 years of experience designing, operating and maintaining data centre infrastructure for service providers, enterprises and cloud hosters, spanning network engineering, data centre design and operations, and bare-metal cloud. He works on transfers and leases across ARIN, RIPE NCC and APNIC, and on bringing customer address space into production on the Netrouting network.
Articles by Savvas Bout
Internet outage: Websites and apps around the world went down
Many major sites like Reddit, Amazon, Spotify, Pinterest, Twitch, eBay, and many more were affected due to an outage.
Read → Apr 29, 2021Brute-force attack on its SSO service at RIPE NCC
RIPE NCC SSO or single sign-on service called RIPE NCC Access got affected in what seemed to be an intentional credentia...
Read → Mar 18, 2021African IP Heist - 4 million African web addresses have been stolen
Lack of IPV4 across the world has turned them into scarce commodities with huge demand. In 2006 4 million African web ad...
Read → Feb 26, 2021What is IPv4 to IPv6 Tunneling?
IPv4 to IPv6 tunneling relates to the use of the current routing system of the IPv4 address to accommodate the inevitabl...
Read → Jan 25, 2021Important Queries about IPv4
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on IPv4 addresses. How to Buy, Sell or Lease them. And other technical Queries about In...
Read → Dec 29, 2020How did IPv4 exhaustion happen? How to obtain IPv4 addresses quickly?
Despite the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses there are large number of unused IPv4s with different entities. Prefixx is your...
Read → Dec 17, 2020Retail Giant Amazon Amassed Large Amounts Of IPv4 Addresses. Why Are They Doing It?
Internet watchdog's reveal that the retail giant Amazon has bought billions of dollars worth of IPv4 addresses. The exac...
Read → Nov 30, 2020How Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) helps prevent route hijacking and other attacks?
The nuances of Internet Protocol and storage are such that an unknown network can announce or originate any route. How R...
Read → Oct 29, 2020How to Sell your IPv4 Blocks? Secondary Marketplace for IPv4 Addresses
All five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) are almost depleted or facing a shortage of these addresses. If you have ad...
Read → Oct 12, 2020How Private IP Address can Benefit Businesses?
As privacy & security issues are becoming common pain points for companies, making the right digital security decisions...
Read → Aug 29, 2020A complete guide to buying and transferring APNIC IPv4
How to buy or sell IPv4 in APNIC region? What are the process for it? A complete guide to buying and transferring APNIC...
Read → Aug 19, 2020APNIC, the regional registry, has found 50 million unused IPv4 addresses. How will they be reassigned?
Asia's internet registry for China, India, and other Asia-Pacific countries (APNIC) has collected the unused IPv4 addres...
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