Everyone who watches news technology, knew that the day we will run out of IPv4 addresses is coming. Apparently it has come and indeed we are in the last days.
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), is a non-profit team which manages Internet addresses 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? From the ARIN addresses, IPv4 Address Report shows only 0.0085 / 8 IPv4 address blocks. In English, instead of the terminology of the internet, ARIN does not have enough blocks of 500 addresses. In other words, the blocks have reached them for two to four weeks.
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 one movement however 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.
The businesses they should know that this transition is already underway for many service providers in all countries and that websites accessible via IPv6 perform best.”
