Everyone who watches new technology knew that the day we will stay from IPv4 addresses is coming. It seems to have come and we have been in the last few days.
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), is a non-profit group that manages addresses on the Internetnetwork for Canada, most Caribbean countries, and the United States. The team announced that it has activated the Unmet Request Policy.
This means that there are no longer enough IPv4 addresses that can serve demand.
How many have they left? Of the ARIN addresses, the IPv4 Address Report shows only 0.0085/8 IPv4 address blocks. In Greek, instead of his terminology Internet, ARIN does not have enough blocks of 500 addresses. In other words, the blocks they have have two to four more weeks to go.
If you need physical internet addresses, there are many options. First, you can get the largest IPv4 address block available with ARIN. You can then purchase IPv4 addresses from an Internet address reseller, or you can sign up for a waiting list for IPv4 addresses.
The smart move though is to go to IPv6, since IPv4 addresses are now ended. With the development of mobile devices and, more recently, the Internet of Things, IPv4 addresses were depleted faster than expected.
So, as John Curran CEO of ARIN says:
“It is time for ISPs to move to IPv6 for the continued development of the Internet.
Businesses should be aware that this transition is already underway for many operators supply services in all countries and that the websites that are reachable via IPv6 have the best possible performance.”
