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Last blocks of IPv4 addresses allocated, exhaustion now imminent
This is just a quick note to say that, in a ceremonial event in Miami, the last five blocks of IPv4 addresses have now been handed out by IANA, a part of ICANN. Each of the five regional registries -- North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia -- now have only a few million IP addresses to allocate.IP address exhaustion will hit Asia first. With 24 million IP addresses used by APNIC in January 2011, and only around 50 million addresses left in its pool, exhaustion is expected to occur in the next few months. Europe will be next, probably towards the end of 2011, and North America will follow sometime in 2012.
Are you prepared for the IPocalypse?!
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Subscribe to commentsJoao AlmeidaFeb 4th 2011 7:41AM
Armagedeon is iminent!
Tech-MikeFeb 4th 2011 9:12AM
IPv6
JoshFeb 4th 2011 11:37AM
@Tech-Mike
Is still years from implementation. None of the major ISPs have done anything more than beta test it and the major sites have yet to switch over (though Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Microsoft are all planning on offering it shortly, starting on their self proclaimed IPv6 day)
AemonyFeb 4th 2011 11:59AM
Pretty soon the market for second-hand IP addresses will open up, flooded with unused addresses from practically everywhere.
You'd be amazed just how many IP addresses is still unused.