The Internet Ran Out

If you’ve been keeping up to date with your tech news, you’ll know that there’s been fear of the internet running out of IP addresses. Well, those fears have been realized. Blocks of the last available IPv4 addresses has been given to five regions of the world for distribution. This doesn’t mean that the internet won’t grow any more, however. New demand for addresses will just receive IPv6 addresses instead of IPv4. “As part of its work to encourage the timely deployment of IPv6, the Internet Society is coordinating World IPv6 Day on 8 June 2011. Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a rigorous 24-hour global ‘test drive.’ The goal of the World IPv6 Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a full and successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.”