ARIN finally runs out of IPv4 addresses

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In the next week, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) will have exhausted their supply of IPv4 addresses. The metaphorical IPv4 cupboards are bare. The Internet will continue to operate, but all organizations must now accelerate their efforts to deploy IPv6. At this point, the rules for how IPv4 address resources are allocated will change. Request might not get fulfilled and applicants might be offered a smaller block or the choice to be added to a waiting list for IPv4 addresses that become available.

As the Internet began to grow, techniques like Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR) and Network Address Translation (NAT) were used to extended life-support for IPv4 for almost two decades. Some enterprise organizations still have not given IPv6 much thought and are not aggressively moving to implementing it. They are playing a dangerous "game of chicken" by ignoring IPv6. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should already be well on their way through their IPv6 deployments, or are in serious danger of falling far behind competitors.
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Woo hoo (Score: 1)

by hyper@pipedot.org on 2015-09-27 07:23 (#NPD5)

Let the great auction and land grab selloffs begin! ... while we wait for laws to be changed to disperse unused blocks of IPs.

Re: Woo hoo (Score: 1)

by pete@pipedot.org on 2015-10-04 13:02 (#PDTV)

I already received an email from my VPS provider reassuring us that they, unlike their competitors, will not be pulling and reallocating IPv4 addresses, nor jacking up the price; at least for the foreseeable future. I wonder if that is really happening at other colos, and if they'll charge a premium to customers who, for whatever reason want to keep their specific addresses (does anyone even care)

There's a market here, not just ARIN (Score: 1)

by wootery@pipedot.org on 2015-09-29 16:51 (#NY50)

The Internet will continue to operate, but all organizations must now accelerate their efforts to deploy IPv6.
Well, no. They can still buy IPv4 addresses, just not from ARIN, no? ARIN running out might increase the price per address, at worst.

Re: There's a market here, not just ARIN (Score: 1)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-09-29 19:57 (#NYTP)

There are more IPv4 addresses to be had, right now, but the point of the article is that they will run out pretty soon, too, and transition to IPv6 takes some time. Any big entities that haven't at least begun, are late, behind most others, and may run out of time.

Re: There's a market here, not just ARIN (Score: 1)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-10-05 08:09 (#PFWJ)

There's no more IPv4 addresses left to be pumped out of the ground. You may (or may not) be able to buy them from an organization that previously pumped a bunch out and doesn't happen to need them all, but there's no more new supply. Prices won't just rise, they'll dramatically spike, and it won't be long before that pool of last resort will be completely exhausted, too. There's too many people, too many devices. There big crunch is imminent.