Apple owns every IP address that starts with 17. (17.0.0.0 - 17.255.255.255)

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Many companies involved in the early internet have entire /8 subnets: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-addr...

Indeed, and for a visualization, the XKCD map of the internet is the definitive reference: http://xkcd.com/195/.

I've always wondered how GE got 3.0.0.0/8, ahead of BB&N (which got three /8 assignments! - 4, 8, 46), Army (6), Xerox (13), Bell Labs (12), IBM (9), DEC (16), DoD Intel (11), US DoD (214, 215), etc.

Given that we're out of IPV4 addresses, it seems like some of the people holding /8 subnets would be prime targets for reallocation, no? Surely Apple (or GE, or Ford...) doesn't need 16 million public IPs?

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