I literally have no idea where everyone got the idea that an IP was lost. From what I'm seeing, one person misunderstood someone else's remark and everybody kind of ran with their misunderstanding.
While I won't go into detail on what the deleted post said, I will say that nothing about losing an IP was said nor even remotely implied.
EDIT: Here is where the mix up seems to have occurred.
@NuteGunrayWasFramed said an IP was REPLACING not being replaced