End of the internet in 3 years?

[PRED]

Well apparently it could happen a lot sooner. Basically we're gonna run out of ip addresses real soon & it needs to get fixed.

Watch news video here

Seems like theres that many devices and so many ip addresses.

[tekz999]

not enough ip addresses? There will be 15 numerics ip addresses to solve this problem.
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

[jasdon11]

Hmmm, IPtrader.com is owned by GoDaddy...

[acesfull]

Reminds me of all of the construction projects to widen roads and bridges, because the engineers didn't anticipate needs beyond one or two decades.

[ddaybofb]

it doesn't matter the world is going to end December 21st, 2012

[Dan-Da-Man]

just because ips are going to run out doesnt mean the internet is going to end.
the same thing happened with phone numbers, they were originally XXX-XXXX and became XXX-XXX-XXXX when there werent enough
ip's could simply be increased the same way

[Stian]

Again, this is why IPv6 was invented (hexadecimal IP-addresses). Problem solved.

[Banned: SonnyBurnett]

Internet start now.

[PRED]

Again, this is why IPv6 was invented (hexadecimal IP-addresses). Problem solved.

yeah, he mentioned that in video.
question was, when they gonna implement and who's paying?

i know therre is a solution, but in meantime, the existing availables are dwindling and with more mobile devices coming by the minute, thats gotta add extra load?

[acesfull]

And after IPv6 fixes it this time, we'll just have the same problem in another one or two hundred years.

[dotDan]

And after IPv6 fixes it this time, we'll just have the same problem in another one or two hundred years.

I'd hope in two hundred years we're not searching Google to find a tidbit of information.

[CyrusL]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6

[acesfull]

I'd hope in two hundred years we're not searching Google to find a tidbit of information.

By then, we'll have Google Brain - a chip implanted into your head.

[Banned: democrat]

By then, we'll have Google Brain - a chip implanted into your head.

Well thats when we have the mark of the devil, right? Thank God, I won't be around in 2 hundred years...lol

[Anthony Ng]

200 years? But that's almost a century before Jean-Luc Picard was born?

[Domagon]

IPv6 capability widely exists. It's more a matter of utilizing it; turning it on.

When IPv4 addresses truly get near running out (right now there's still a lot available, especially when factoring in reuse / more efficient assignment), then the price of obtaining IP addresses will sharply increase along with far more stringent requirements. When that occurs, that will be the ultimate incentive for widespread utilization of IPv6.

Until then, as has been the case for over a decade, many devices / services will continue to operate on shared IPv4 IPs.

Lastly, much of what the mass news media reports is simply FUD (promoting fear, uncertainty, and doubt) to get better ratings, and not necessarily reflective of the true reality.

Ron

[BLazeD]

Thanks Ron, I can relax

[radioz]

I'd hope in two hundred years we're not searching Google to find a tidbit of information.

Sometime long before 200 years the names 'Google', 'Domain Name', and 'Automobile' will be on a parity with 'Victrola', 'Telegram', and 'Buggy Whip'.

In the mean time, the world didn't end on December 31, 1999 (God knows how many books were written on that subject including at least one from a 'Christian' perspective!) and we'll live through this too, probably seamlessly.

[zangief]

We have survived from the Year 2000 problem (Y2K) , this will be easier.
I have seen computers in a multinational companies warehouse , they were the same model , same bios version , same production date , what was funny is that some of them vas marked "Y2K compatible" and some was marked "Y2K uncompatible" we bought all of them on 2004 and there was no problem

[WebsiteTraders.Com]

internet usage is going to increase unless people stop using digital systems