title: How Amazon holds exclusive rights to the Elastic IPs
body: <p>When I allocate an Elastic IP, it stays with me forever (until I remove it). </p>
  
  <p>This also means, no one can ever use this IP address in the entire world. And you can see there is not DNS or stuff. Its is a straight forward IP address reachable from browser.</p>
  
  <p>How does Amazon block the IP to itself? In other words, how does Amazon hold an IP address so that no one can use it.</p>