Bernhard Kuemel wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
 MB> IP addresses don't cost anything, you know.
 BK> Where? Over here I have to pay 20 $/month for each extra IP
 BK> address. 
This is between you and your provider.  IP addresses are created ex nihilo by 
the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority and assigned by Internic or one its 
subsidiary registries, in your case RIPE.  Technically, you are paying to 
lease your IP addresses from your provider, who then provides routing 
services for them.  You could get your own IP addresses free of charge, but 
then your provider would probably not be willing to route for them.  If you 
are a large enough business, then you have the negotiating leverage to make 
your provider do what you want with whatever addresses you want.
 
-- Mike
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