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2.0.0.0/16 and 2.2.0.0/16 are owned by Orange, a European company. I'm sure they'd be willing to lease 2.2.2.0/24 and 2.0.0.0/24 for a nominal fee

5.4.0.0/14 (so 5.5.5.5) is Telefonica Germany. Same thing there.

Mercedes owns 53.0.0.0/8 which feels like a nice number for DNS too.

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Telefonica and Orange are hardly companies that would just let you lease "valuable" ipv4 addresses without having to pay a hefty sum.

If you only lease something the owner can at any time take your business and efforts from you.

It's not the IP that's the problem.

It's the "anycast" mapping of the IP to geographically and network diverse hosts to connect the user to the "closest" (for some value of latency that stays within the data governance jurisdiction).

To do this, you basically have to own a large enough IP block that backbones will deal with it, and route map it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast

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