Report: The End of the Internet Is Near

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And now for scaremongering at its best...

The end of the Internet is near — and in less than three years, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The reason? More than 85% of the available addresses have already been allocated and the OECD predicts we will have run out completely by early 2011...

“Shortages are already acute in some regions,” says the OECD. “The situation is critical for the future of the internet economy.”
 
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And now for scaremongering at its best...

The end of the Internet is near — and in less than three years, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The reason? More than 85% of the available addresses have already been allocated and the OECD predicts we will have run out completely by early 2011...

“Shortages are already acute in some regions,” says the OECD. “The situation is critical for the future of the internet economy.”
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But now, you're no longer limited to .com, .net., .org, etc.

It's a moot point. Someone's just flippin' over nothing.
 
Well it's not nothing. the .com, .net, etc is meaningless. They all refer to an IP address and with the advent of phones having IP addresses that is causing the numbers to run in short supply. The longterm fix is to switch from IP v4 to IP v6. That and there are businesses who have banks of IP addresses they will never use that could be reclaimed. Many Internet companies were purchased for their bank of numbers.
 
IP addresses can range from 0.0.0.0 to 256.256.256.256. That's 429 million IP's. proxies don't help- under hughes, I have 2 IP's. one for the hughes network and one for the public computer system. And it's like that for any proxy.

IPv6 would probably help, but as you said, putting those mass IP's up for auction, or simply releasing them, would help too i'd imagine.

DNS links textual web addresses to server IP addresses. so every website as well as every client computer has an IP address
 
Ian't this AL Gores Fault?
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Magnethead said:
IP addresses can range from 0.0.0.0 to 256.256.256.256. That's 429 million IP's. proxies don't help- under hughes, I have 2 IP's. one for the hughes network and one for the public computer system. And it's like that for any proxy.

IPv6 would probably help, but as you said, putting those mass IP's up for auction, or simply releasing them, would help too i'd imagine.

DNS links textual web addresses to server IP addresses. so every website as well as every client computer has an IP address
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IP addresses mean nothing. You can have any IP address, theoretically, just depending on the DNS provider. MAC addresses are the big deal in networking.
 
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