The internet is out of space!

[draggar]

No more registering domains! (j/k)

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/02/03/internet.addresses.gone/index.html?hpt=T2

On Thursday, the internet as we know it ran out of space.

The nonprofit group that assigns addresses to service providers announced that, on Thursday morning, it allocated the last free internet addresses available from the current pool used for most of the internet's history.

"This is an historic day in the history of the internet, and one we have been anticipating for quite some time," said Raul Echeberria, chairman of the Number Resource Organization.

Don't worry, the new system can handle 340 trillion trillion addresses 9as opposed to 4.3 billion) but the way some of us go with registering domains those will all be used up next week.

 

[south]

Yes, this has been coming. Gonna be a slow transition in the U.S.

Switching a bonded T1 circuit next week to a new provider, had to make them agree to enough IPs before signing the contract. :boxing:

They were not happy about it, but agreed to get the sale.

 

[katherine]

A big portion of the IP space is allocated to US government, military, universities and large corporations like HP.
http://mark.koli.ch/2009/07/ipv4-do...f-ipv4-addresses-ipv4-address-exhaustion.html
What a waste

 

[Gerry]

Read this last night on WIRED.com.

IPv6 coming.

 

[draggar]

A big portion of the IP space is allocated to US government, military, universities and large corporations like HP.
http://mark.koli.ch/2009/07/ipv4-do...f-ipv4-addresses-ipv4-address-exhaustion.html
What a waste

Hmm, a new form of domaining, buying and leasing actual IP addresses? I wonder how long this one will last before it runs out of space?