The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority is in charge of doling out IP address blocks. Last Friday, June 17th 2005, five previously unused /8 netblocks (same size as a class A network, aka 16 million addresses) were allocated.
Three netblocks went to North America via the American Registry for Internet Numbers.
74/8
75/8
76/8
Two netblocks went to Latin America and the Caribbean via the Latin America and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry.
189/8
190/8
If you filter bogons on your firewall, update your filters accordingly.
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