How does a company like Cloudflare come to acquire a "vanity" IP address like that? Are they just sold privately to high bidders?
> Cloudflare had the network. APNIC had the IP address (1.1.1.1). Both of us were motivated by a mission to help build a better Internet. You can read more about each organization’s motivations on our respective posts: Cloudflare Blog / APNIC Blog.
The blog post links just links to the blog themselves, not actually to a post, so this submission seems premature.