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How to Reserve an IP Block

Suppliers can temporarily hide one or more of their IP-Blocks from the Marketplace using a Reserve. Once a reserve becomes active on the selected start date, the reserved blocks are no longer visible to Customers and cannot be rented until the reserve is deleted.

💡 Related: Before you can create a reserve, the IP-Block must first be imported and approved on the platform. See How to Import an IP Block.

Prerequisites

  1. You must have an approved Business Account.
  2. You must have at least one IP-Block with Avail status imported on the platform.

What is a Reserve?

A Reserve is a Supplier-controlled mechanism that schedules the removal of selected IP-Blocks from the Marketplace starting from a chosen date.

Once the reserve start date is reached:

  • The block is not visible on the Marketplace.
  • The block cannot be rented by Customers.
  • The block remains accessible to the Supplier under My reserves.

The Supplier can delete the reserve at any time — before or after the start date — to make the block available on the Marketplace again.

Step 1 — Open My Reserves

Navigate to IPv4 resources → My reserves.

My Reserves navigation

You will see the reserves table. If no reserves have been created yet, the table will show No items found.

Empty reserves table

Step 2 — Create a Reserve

Click + Create Reserve in the top-right corner of the page.

The Create Reserve dialog will open. In the dialog:

  1. Choose ip-blocks — select one or more IP-Blocks or sub-blocks from the dropdown. You can add multiple blocks to a single reserve.
  2. Choose reserve starting date (UTC+0) — click the date field to open the calendar and pick the date on which the reserve should become active.

Create Reserve — calendar picker

After selecting the date, the form is ready to submit.

Create Reserve — date selected, ready to create

🛈 Note: The start date is applied in UTC+0. Make sure to account for your local timezone when scheduling.

Click Create to confirm.

Step 3 — Verify the Reserve

After creation, a new record will appear in the reserves table with the following columns:

Column Description
IP-block The CIDR of the reserved block
Reserve creation date The date the reserve was created
Reserve start date The date the block will be hidden from the Marketplace
Reserve end date Filled when the reserve is deleted

Reserve created and visible in the table

When the selected start date is reached, the block is automatically removed from the Marketplace.

Deleting a Reserve

To return an IP-Block to the Marketplace, find the reserve record in the table and click Delete.

The reserve is removed immediately and the block becomes visible on the Marketplace again.

Reserve deleted successfully

⚠️ Note: Deleting a reserve cannot be undone. To hide the block again, you will need to create a new reserve.

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