Only 10 Percent of Web Addresses (IPv4) Remain

  • Posted by Jeremy
  • January 25, 2010

TechSpot reports that only 10% of the IPv4 addresses remain. IPv4 is the numerical nomenclature used to identify all of those great websites you grew up with like: pets.com, yahoo.com, geocities.com, etc. New kid on the block IPv6 will give us – potentially – trillions of addresses to Facebook about into the future, but the days of IPv4 being our go-to Internet communications protocol are now numbered.

“The replacement addressing system (IPv6) uses a 128-bit address space and can handle trillions of connected devices, whereas — surprising as it may seem — IPv4’s roughly 4 billion addresses are starting to dry out. “

Well crap. I guess it’s time to reserve NakedWheelbarrow.net

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Chris
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January 26, 2010 at 9:37 am

Sorry Jeremy, but you are kind of wrong!

10% of IPv4 IP addresses are left. Thats your classical 192.168.0.1 style names. They are kinda like the phone number or post code for domain names like http://www.google.com.

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GPFault
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January 26, 2010 at 5:39 pm

I’ll accept your point, and I modified my header to reflect. Of course my post DOES have all of the correct information.

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January 27, 2010 at 6:50 am

I kinda misread sorry!