IPv4 addresses are running out fast

Hurricane Electric warns that Internet IPv4 addresses will run out within a year.

Hurricane Electric (the world’s largest IPv6 provider) sounded the alarm. The IPv4 protocol, which handles the lion's share of Internet traffic, will soon be depleted. To the layman, the standard’s approximately 4 billion allocable addresses seem huge, but in practice it is not at all due to the growing number of pre-allocated address spaces and network devices. We would have reached the complete emptying of the IPv4 address space without Network Address Translation (NAT) years ago.
The ultimate solution is the IPv10 protocol, which has been in existence for 6 years. The classic example: in theory, every sand particle on Earth could have an IPv6 address.

ByeBye v4 counter

IPv6 traffic

Although global IPv6 traffic grew by more than 1400 percent between 2008 and September 2009, the pace of change is still too slow. Companies and IT professionals can no longer postpone the transition to IPv6 because IPv4 addresses will run out within a year.

According to Arbor Networks IPv6 is now only up 0,03 percent of all Internet traffic.