Internet running out of addresses

The Internet is running out of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, used by computers to communicate.

The Amsterdam-based Number Resource Organization (NRO), official representative of the five regional registries that oversee the allocation of all Internet number resources, announced on Tuesday that less than 10 per cent of available IPv4 addresses remained unallocated. (V4 IP addresses consist of four sets of numbers separated by colons, which serve as a unique identification for computers on networks.)

The remaining small pool of the existing IP addresses marks a critical moment in IPv4address exhaustion, ultimately impacting the future network operations of all businesses and organisations around the globe.