The UK government has began selling web addresses off that it uses.
As the internet has nearly outgrown the addressing scheme it embraced in the 1970s the addresses are becoming precious.
In the event all of the excessive is sold off by the UK authorities addresses it possesses it could get up to GBP15m.
Nevertheless, some fear that as the addresses are shared out more broadly, information could go.
Before this year, a job to see how a number of these IP addresses may be freed was began by the DWP.
An official report generated before the DWP started its investigation indicated that 70% of the huge block was utilized for the internal network of the UK government, leaving about five million free for administration.
“Authorities occasionally reviews all its assets to contemplate their monetary worth, including alternatives to release income from the ones which are not used to their fullest potential.
“The extent of the worth of these assets is commercially sensitive and protected by normal legal confidentiality agreements.”