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Internet Runs Out Of IP Addresses (For Now)

March 01, 2011 posted by Steve Brownstein

The pool of Internet addresses has officially been drained.

Four non-profit Internet administrative groups -- the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Number Resources Organization (NRO), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Society -- said at a press conference that the supply of IPv4 addresses has been depleted.

"This is a major turning point in the ongoing development of the Internet," said Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s president and CEO, in a statement.

The situation however isn't imminently dire: It's not as if companies or individuals who want to launch a Web site will be unable to do so.

There are likely to be addresses to be had for months if not years, and the dwindling supply may be extended through network addressing tricks.

But the limits of IPv4 are no longer theoretical.

The last remaining IPv4 addresses were  allocated -- two blocks of IP addresses, about 33 million, were assigned to the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region already and the five final blocks were doled out in conjunction with the press conference.