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LARUS has launched a first-party IPv4 leasing platform built around what it describes as a court-ordered shareholder-position continuity structure. The UK-based company aims to address registry-layer instability, audit uncertainty and policy shifts affecting operators across the global Regional Internet Registry environment. The platform operates through a dual structure: Cloud Innovation maintains the registry-side shareholder-position framework, whilst LARUS handles commercial leasing, routing coordination and customer operations. Customers lease directly from the platform rather than through intermediary brokers. LARUS states its architecture is supported by a court-ordered statutory shareholder-position framework under Mauritius company law. The Supreme Court of Mauritius ordered Cloud Innovation's entry into AFRINIC's statutory register framework. The platform targets hosting providers, cloud operators, ISPs and enterprise network operators seeking long-term IPv4 continuity arrangements.