If you still haven’t registered that long planned imtheshit.com address, I’m sorry. You’re shit out of luck. All available internet addresses are down to five blocks of 16 million each. These are expected to run out by September. Billions worldwide still haven’t registered internet addresses. We live on the southern tip of Africa. You do the math.
The future of the internet is hanging on a thin thread called IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6). IPv6 is the successor to IPv4, the current batch of internet addresses. IPv4 was developed in the seventies and had room for about 4.3 billion addresses. IPv6 is expected to have room for “trillions” of addresses but progress towards using it has been “slow”. They don’t say why. Everyone’s probably scrambling to get addresses registered before IPv4 runs out. No one knows what happened to IPv5 either.
[Source: BBC]
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